Calls are skyrocketing to immigration hotlines and legal here aid organizations as the Trump administration's ruthless crackdown on undocumented immigrants intensifies. Families are stricken with anxiety, and communities are torn apart by government intimidation. With reports of families torn apart mounting daily, the human cost of Trump's {unyielding immigration policy is tragically clear.

• Hundreds of families have been ripped apart by ICE raids.

• Advocates warn that the Trump administration's policies are driving people into hiding.

In the void left by ICE's policies, phone calls become a beacon of hope, a fragile thread connecting hearts that yearn to be united. But their brevity is a constant consequence of the system’s cruelty.