Trump ended DACA. This woman is suing to stop him.

Growing up in Las Vegas, Norma Ramirez set her sights on attending an Ivy League college. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Ramirez excelled at school and thought she had a shot at Harvard or Yale.

But as she was planning her future, her father told her to forget college. Ramirez didn’t have legal status in the United States, he reminded her. At five years old, she had arrived from Mexico without a visa, a country she barely remembered.

The reality of being undocumented in America came crashing down on Ramirez, then a high school senior. Her dreams of a prosperous future tanked. While no federal law prevents undocumented students from attending college, access to financing or scholarships is almost impossible.

Yet today Ramirez is on a path she never thought possible, thanks largely to an Obama-era immigration program known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). At age 29, she is a mental health therapist and PhD candidate in clinical psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. She is also one of 11 plaintiffs suing the Trump administration for ending DACA. The US Supreme Court will hear the case on Nov. 12.

“Nowhere in my life, in my narrative, was there ever like, one day, I’m going to sue the president,” said Ramirez, who has been a DACA recipient since 2012. “Nobody ever has that as a dream.”

When she thinks about the court challenge ahead — the fact that so many DACA recipients will be watching the outcome closely, pinning their hopes to her and the other plaintiffs’ success — she feels both hopeful and anxious.

“It’s a lot. I [have] started to feel it,” Ramirez said. “I feel kind of scared, because no one like me should be in the Supreme Court.”

The case, Regents of the University of California, et al. v. United States Department of Homeland Security, et al., hinges on whether the Trump administration acted lawfully in ending the DACA program in September 2017. The outcome could affect hundreds of thousands of people who are often called “Dreamers” — many of whom, like Ramirez, were brought to the country without proper authorization as children.

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