Calls are exploding to immigration hotlines and legal aid organizations as the Trump administration's relentless crackdown on undocumented immigrants intensifies. Families are stricken with anxiety, and communities are on edge by government intimidation. With reports of families torn apart spreading rapidly, the human cost of Trump's {unyielding immigration policy is becoming increasingly evident.

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

• Advocates warn that the Trump administration's policies are traumatizing communities.

In the mass deportation policy emptiness 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 reproach of the system’s cruelty.