ANN ARBOR, MI - Javier and Jose Contreras, two brothers from Mexico, were brought by their family to the United States illegally when they were 4 and 5, respectively.

They've lived here ever since as undocumented immigrants, and they consider this their home.

They don't remember much about the rural village where they were born or the dark night when they crossed the border in 2001.

Four years ago as teenagers, they both graduated from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor and received two-year, full-ride scholarships to attend Washtenaw Community College.

Javier is now 22 and studying computer science at the University of Michigan. Jose is 23 and studying cognitive science at UM. They're both set to graduate next spring.

But after the Trump administration this week announced plans to end the Obama-era program known as DACA, standing for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, their future is once again uncertain.

Both were in attendance Friday night, Sept. 8, as a large crowd gathered on the University of Michigan Diag for a DACA rally. Javier spoke during the rally, sharing his own personal story.

Without DACA, he said, he won't be able to legally work in the U.S., and he's terrified about the thought of ending up with a useless degree, or worse, ending up back in Mexico where he says he'd be a foreigner.

"We knew that DACA was temporary, but I refuse to let it end this way," he told a cheering crowd Friday night.

"We have been living our lives in constant uncertainty for far too long," he said. "Congress has been looking for a solution since 2001 with zero success. For our president to ask for a solution in six months is ridiculous. Nonetheless, we need to push Congress to act and create a bill that will keep families together and open a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients. This is our home and we deserve the right to remain in the country that raised us."

He added, "I'm sick and tired of everyone telling me to just become legal. There is no way for me just to become legal. I want that. I want to prove to you guys that I'm just as American as all of you, but I currently have no way, and my best hope is that out of all of this, something changes so I can become American."

State Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, also spoke during Friday's rally on the UM campus. Following the rally, sign-carrying demonstrators marched through town.

The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday the University of California is suing the Trump administration for rescinding protections for immigrant students without legal status, saying it unconstitutionally violates their rights on "nothing more than unreasoned executive whim." It's the first legal effort by a university to block the Trump administration's decision to end protection from deportation for nearly 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally before age 16, completed high school-level education and stayed out of trouble, The Times reported.

UC President Janet Napolitano helped create the DACA program in 2012 as U.S. Homeland Security secretary.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said this week the administration is giving Congress six months to come up with a legislative fix "should it choose to" before the federal government stops renewing permits for people already covered by the program.

"I look forward to working w/ D's + R's in Congress to address immigration reform in a way that puts hardworking citizens of our country 1st," Trump tweeted this week, adding in another tweet:

"Congress now has 6 months to legalize DACA (something the Obama Administration was unable to do). If they can't, I will revisit this issue!"

According to the Department of Homeland Security, current law does not grant any legal status for current recipients of DACA. Recipients of DACA are currently unlawfully present in the U.S. with their removal deferred. When their period of deferred action expires or is terminated, their removal will no longer be deferred and they will no longer be eligible for lawful employment.