Sonia Guinansaca, a student from New York, will appear today in court in the country's capital to face charges of civil disobedience. She was arrested during a protest on July 20 in Washington, D.C. Guinansaca and others were supporting the Dream Act (legislation that would provide a path to citizenship through college or the army for young adults with a high school diploma who were brought to the United States as kids by their undocumented parents).

"I'm nervous and afraid, but I did all this because we have a dream. We recognize that we need to put in a lot of effort to get students in this country legalized," she said in an exclusive interview with Diario de Mexico USA, hours before leaving for Washington, D.C., accompanied by her mother and other family members.

Guinansaca, 21, is a distinguished graduate of Hunter College. She protested with the enormous fear of facing deportation.

"Anything can happen. When they arrested us, it was very hard on everyone. We were locked up for hours. They interrogated us. They have our fingerprints registered and they know where we live. Our families are also in danger because they don't have papers," Guinansaca explained.

She will appear in court along with students from Arizona, California, and Texas, before a judge that will decide whether to pardon them or to proceed with deportation procedures.

"On the one hand, I am calm, because we knew that some of us could risk deportation by committing civil disobedience to get the Dream Act passed, but it is a price we must pay," Guinansaca maintained.

Part of the charges against these students have been dropped but some of them still face uncertainty.