Dalia Garcia is unable to get out of the bed she wakes up in every morning by herself.  She fractured her spine in a car accident two years ago.

“I couldn’t feel my body anymore. I couldn’t lift up my hands or anything. All I could move was my neck," she said.

“I have hope that maybe one day I wake up it’s all just a dream,” she added.

The 25-year-old woman, who once loved to dance and wanted a career caring for the elderly, is completely dependent upon her mother’s care.

“She’s basically like my motor. Like, if I want to do something, she has to help me.  I want to go shower, I want to go to the bathroom, she has to help me," she said. "So it’s very hard. It’s very very hard."

But for nearly four years, her mother, Fermina Garcia, has faced a higher risk of deportation. She fears immigration agents will arrest her if she even leaves their apartment.

"Can you imagine? If they deport me," she said in Spanish with tears in her eyes. "What's going to happen to her?"

“That would completely break that family,” the family's immigration attorney, Marilyn Orbach-Rosenberg, told NY1.

Orbach-Rosenberg says Garcia was 18 when she entered the U.S. from Mexico without permission. She was ordered to appear in immigration court, but the addresses of both courts in the city were listed and she went to the wrong one.

“She was issued an order of deportation in absentia," Orbach-Rosenberg said. "Right now, she could be deported at any time."

She appealed to the Trump administration to reopen the case on humanitarian grounds.

“I don’t think that it gets more exceptional or compelling or extraordinary than my client's case, and there’s no movement. Nothing is happening,” she said.

Fermina Garcia has been at greater risk ever since President Donald Trump rescinded an Obama-Biden policy of considering family ties in the U.S. and “humanitarian factors" such as "a seriously ill relative" in deciding whether to deport certain undocumented immigrants.

“We have great, great hopes for this new administration,” Orbach-Rosenberg said.

The Garcia family is taking it one day at a time. The coronavirus keeps them home, a blessing for a family that fears immigration authorities.

But now, unable to go to physical therapy appointments, Dalia depends on her mom for that as well.

“My biggest fear is like, if anything happens to my mother, what’s going to happen to me?" Dalia Garcia said. "My life ends there.”

The family hopes that if Fermina Garcia can make it to Inauguration Day, her chances of being allowed to stay will rise dramatically, especially since her husband and two children are all U.S. citizens.