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.
Read the full story here | Reporter: Coral Murphy | Photo Editor: Thalia Juarez
The Ortega family go for a walk in their neighborhood in Rhode Island.
Nery Ortega Lima, 47, and his wife Lilian Yanes, 44, at their home in Rhode Island.
Nery Ortega, 19, next to his father at their home in Rhode Island. The father and son trekked from Guatemala to escape the rampant gang violence blanketing their village in Santa Ana.
Leila Ortega, 9, looks out the window of her home in Rhode Island on April 1, 2023.
Nery Jr sits with his sister Leyla while listening to their father recount his experience of crossing the US-Mexico border from Guatemala.
Ortega Lima, Leyla and Yanes on a grocery trip.