NAU track star and DACA recipient to compete in the Olympics
Northern Arizona University track star and undocumented resident Luis Grijalva's request to travel to Tokyo to compete in the Olympics was approved on Tuesday through protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood arrivals program.
Grijalva, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that grants work and study authorization to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, had mere weeks f…
The West is burning. Europe and China are flooding. The global temperature is heating up to dangerous levels in ways that defy our will to fix them. Worldwide, 4 million have died of COVID-19, which,
Luis Grijalva's second-place finish at the NCAA track and field championship last month bought him a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics. But it seemed not nearly enough time to request special permission t…
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