LOS ANGELES – Out of fear of deportation, a man who wished to keep his identity anonymous visited his lawyer on Sunday, the day the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids began.  

Having already been locked up once in a detention center, he said he is afraid of the days to come.

"Wanting to get clarity on everything. My case and the potential outcome [of] everything is going on right now," said the anonymous man.

Inside the office, he sits across from his attorney gripping his phone scrolling through his family photos while holding on to hope that he won't be separated from his family.

"I don't know how I would be able to deal with it. For me to not be able to hug them and kiss them," a few moments pass as he fights backs tears, "it just tears me down."

Immigration Attorney Shan Potts says that in his line of work, it's easy to get emotionally drained.  He said saving families from being separated is one thing that keeps him going.

"I actually have something to, when I get up in the morning something to fight for, or someone to fight for.  So, I'm not coming to work to do a task," said Potts.

Potts also says he worries what these ICE raids are going to do to families in the long run. He also fears that this is just the beginning.

"People need to be proactive who find themselves in this situation. There's going to be a lot of tragedy that's what we're going to see as a result of this these raids. I strongly believe this these raids are the first [of] many," said Potts.

As for the client who says that he remembers the day when he was brought over at 5 years old, "getting in the truck and crossing through the border and through the customs, I believe we were just waved in."

He also said that even if it meant having to be placed back in a detention center, as bad as things can be, he would do it all over again.

"Hundred times over and over.  There's there's really no better place than at home, what we made home.  You have right to stay home."