Alcibiades Rosado has spent nearly three decades building a life and a family in the United States. But now his future hangs in balance as he awaits the outcome of a court battle that could determine the legal status of more than 500,000 undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens.
Rosado, 45 and originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, arrived in New York City in 1996 at the age of 17. Since then, he has worked tirelessly in the restaurant industry, eventually settling in Edinburg, Texas, with his wife, Diana Torres, a U.S. citizen born in the Rio Grande Valley. The couple married in 2010 after a two-year long-distance relationship and have raised two children, now 18 and 12 years old.
