What would it take for you to leave everything you know and love behind and go to a country you've never seen before? Millions of people have been faced with this question when choosing to immigrate to the United States. My husband was one of them. At the age of 15, he crossed the Arizona desert to live and work in the US. This is our story of living together in the United States before he had papers, surviving an immigration raid, and navigating the immigration process to get to where we are today.