Immigrant advocates in New York City continue to prepare for immigration officials to ramp up enforcement.

Sarahi Marquez, 33, says she is scared of being deported.

“Right now, I’m feeling anxious. I’m feeling a little depressed. Certainly a lot of panic,” Marquez said. “I came here when I was 6 years old in 1998 and we came from Mexico. We came due to the downfall of the economy in Mexico.”

Marquez’s parents brought her to the U.S. and even though she’s not a citizen, she can work right now because she’s a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient.

The program allows people brought to the U.S. illegally as children to work temporarily without fear of deportation.

Marquez and her father own a restaurant on Staten Island. She’s worried her life will be altered as President Donald Trump vows to conduct mass deportations across the country.

“I am fearful, not only for myself but for myself but also for my business and my staff, my family. What’s going to happen? I need to know because I need to be able to prepare for a future lease,” Marquez said.

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have ramped up arrests in other cities, many immigrants in the city are on edge.

“We have seen this administration come in and on day one, issued a slew of executive orders, attacking our communities,” Murad Awawdeh, president of the New York Immigration Coalition, said.

Immigrant advocacy groups like the New York Immigration Coalition say they’re prepared to ramp up their assistance to undocumented New Yorkers as needed.

“Our best defense in this moment is people knowing their rights. Stay calm. Don’t lie. Remain silent. Don’t consent to search. And if they show up to your door, do not open the door without a judicial warrant,” Awawdeh said.

Marquez says she’s been in this country for over 25 years, but knows DACA only provides temporary work authorization ... and not a green card and certainly not citizenship.

“It’s like the blind leading the blind. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I can’t tell my staff, ‘Hey, everything’s going to be OK.’ When I, myself, don’t know what’s going to happen to me without those permits. I really don’t have a certain future,” she said.

Former President Barack Obama launched DACA in 2012. However, a federal appeals court found the policy to be unlawful.

The more than 500,000 DACA recipients can renew their permits, however the federal government cannot take new applicants.