Romelio Cruz came to the United States with a wife and two sons from Guanajuato, Mexico , when he was 30 years old, hoping to build a better life for his family. For most of the time in his country, Cruz shouldered that burden alone. His wife, with whom he had five children, died 25 years ago during childbirth. 'Our mother passed at a young age,'? his son, Romel Cruz, said. 'He was our father ...