WASHINGTON, D.C. – It is one of the Supreme Court’s signature cases of this session as they consider oral arguments on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. It appears the Justices are leaning towards allowing President Donald Trump to end the program for the recipients, also known as Dreamers.

One Dreamer, Gabriela Sanchez, is from Los Angeles. She decided to journey to Washington to watch and rally for Dreamers’ rights.

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“We spent I believe three days and two nights there,” said Sanchez. “Even through the rain. There was a time where they turned on the sprinklers like five times last night so that was great. But we stuck there.”

Sanchez and other California DACA advocates set up camp outside the Supreme Court days in advance to make sure they could get a ticket into the grand hearing room. They didn’t want to miss seeing the nine justices consider the arguments about whether or not to keep DACA, the program created by President Obama in 2012 gave children a chance to stay shielded from deportation on a two-year renewal.

“It was almost daunting,” said Sanchez.

Sanchez watched the justices ask questions for nearly an hour and a half. It appeared the five conservatives were more likely to rule in favor of the Department of Homeland Security, to say the department acted properly when ordering the end of DACA in 2017.

However, the liberal justices appeared to believe the federal government didn’t have a good enough reason to strike down the program.

“It was a mixture of things,” said Sanchez. “It almost felt 50/50; we really don’t know the answer.”

Inside the hearing room, Sanchez said she felt hope for herself and her fellow Dreamers. Outside, rallies raged, hoping the high courts would listen to them.

Sanchez said the fear of deportation is growing, but admits she has always felt that fear.

“I always had the fear of deportation. I had the fear of my parents being deported. The fear of my friends being deported,” she said. “I’ve had nightmares especially after Trump was president of like being in a detention center. I don’t know, I think it’s like we have nothing left to lose and if we don’t get the outcome that we do deserve and that would be fair then we’re just going to keep on fighting.”

The president tweeted out that not all DACA recipients are “angels” and said that many were actually “tough, hardened criminals,” despite the Dreamers having to undergo a background check to renew their status every two years.

The high courts have until next summer to make a decision.