Evan Rachel Wood travels to the Texas border to fight for separated families

Acclaimed actress Evan Rachel Wood said that she saw the images and heard screaming "ripped" children from their families on the southern border.

"I felt as if I'd been hit in the intestine when I found out what was going on," she said in a moving interview with ABC News on Sunday. "I do not believe in torn families, I do not think so.

"I do not think it's right and without a plan to bring them together – it's completely unimaginable, unthinkable and it's wrong."

So Wood said that she traveled to Texas to "put faces to the story" and "be able to hold the children in her arms".

The star of "Westworld & # 39; has been overcome with a mixture of melancholy and joy, reflecting the hours spent with some children in shelters for families waiting to be treated.

The actress said that drugs, clean clothes and other supplies were appreciated, but what seemed most resonating was to show that they were appreciated.

"I want to let them know that they were not alone," Wood said of young children in shelters. "To be able to hug the children – it has touched me a lot."

She joked that the children who greeted her in their park "were so much smarter than me."

"You know, we were building things and creating things and the hope that was in their eyes was inspiring."

Wood tried to put herself in the mothers' shoes and feel what it would be like to lose track of her 5-year-old son.

"I could not even imagine not knowing where he was or not knowing if I was going to see him again," she said, holding back her tears.

Thousands of children have been separated from family members while waiting to be tried and their cases are tried.

This is the result of President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policy towards people who cross the border illegally.

The policy, enunciated by the Trump administration and implemented by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has been criticized by lawmakers, advocates and the religious community – including some in the president's home base. On Wednesday, Trump signed a decree aimed at keeping intact immigrant families trying to cross the border.

"I did not like the sight or the sense of family separation," Trump said afterward.

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But Wood said the president's order does not solve the problem for the hundreds of children who have already separated from their loved ones.

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"I did not want people to think that because of a slight political [change] She said, "We still have to reunite families.

"Do not lose your momentum because the fight is not over, let's not lose hope."