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

The Ortega family go for a walk in their neighborhood in Rhode Island. Photograph: Sophie Park

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.