Calls are skyrocketing to immigration hotlines and legal aid organizations as the Trump administration's brutal crackdown on undocumented immigrants intensifies. Families are cowed by terror, and communities are torn apart by ICE sweeps. With reports of here families torn apart spreading rapidly, the human cost of Trump's {unyielding immigration policy is starkly apparent.

• Thousands of undocumented immigrants have been apprehended and detained in recent weeks.

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

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