Moved by her experiences interviewing migrants and asylum seekers, this journalist has decided to help in a more tangible way: as an immigration lawyer.

An active volunteer in his community, student Gonzalez-Miranda, who was seized by ICE on June 4th, has been called "generous," and "a natural leader."

In the second episode of Melting the Ice, Amy and Janice remind us that behind every separation, whether by detention, imprisonment or deportation, there is a family rallying behind the scenes, fighting hard to get their loved one back.

36 hours after he recited a poem criticizing ICE at a public forum, Jose Bello awoke to find ICE officers at the door of his home.

Detained for 2 years, Honore lives with pain, inadequate food - and rats. "I am without hope to leave," he writes.

Being more conscious of our political reality, and becoming involved with immigrant rights organizations, has helped shape my artistic vision. I just couldn't turn my back anymore.

For Noheli, a Venezuelan woman who requested asylum, being bonded out and then welcomed into several volunteers’ homes made all the difference after spending four months in a California immigrant jail where she developed an infection.

The sounds of children in these detention centers calling for their "mama" and "papa" are actual audio recordings released last summer by ProPublica. The makeshift sidewalk detention cages are part of advocacy group RAICES' #NoKidsInCages campaign.

The library is one of the few places on the continent where those living in the US with visas that do not allow return-entry can reunite with family members.