Trump’s immigration policy tore this family apart. Four years later, they are finally reunited

Ernesto Ortega Lima and his family were separated in 2018 as they tried to cross into the US while fleeing gang violence in Guatemala

On a rainy spring afternoon, Nery Ortega Lima, a 47-year-old Guatemalan man living in Rhode Island, held his wife's hand at a bodega-style market while his nine-year-old daughter threw boxes of strawberry milk and some tomatoes into the family's basket.

The market was packed with other neighbors getting their grocery shopping off their to-do lists, but for Ortega Lima, this simple errand has become heavenly after years of his family being torn apart.