Deportation Nightmare: Lines Jammed as Trump Tightens Immigration Screws

Calls are surging 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 torn apart by ICE sweeps. With reports here of families torn apart becoming commonplace, the human cost of Trump's {unyielding immigration policy is starkly apparent.

• 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 emptiness 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 reproach of the system’s cruelty.