It was student activism in motion.

A march took place Friday from the Notre Dame campus to the downtown South Bend office of U.S. Senator Joseph Donnelly, (D-Indiana).

It was all about Dreamers—the group at the forefront of the debate over immigration reform.

“This is the only country they know. This is the only place they know. They want to be, they've already been here almost all of their lives, and they demand that they be here, and that they continue to stay here,” said Jackie Navarro with DreamSB.

This time, students from Notre Dame, St. Mary’s, and Holy Cross College lead the fight. About 60 of them saw fit to dive in –feet first-by walking 1.7 miles along some of the busiest streets in the city.

Another dozen or so dreamer supporters from the community joined in where the march ended with the first hand delivery of petitions at the senator’s office.

“We have uncertainty. We don't have something certain, something to be based on to plan our future. It’s like a roller coaster. This is a mixture of emotions every single time you go up and you go down,” said Dreamer Marlen Ortiz.

Ortiz has a seven year old son who is a U.S. citizen. She fears that she could be separated from him. “Yes, I could be removed one day and separated from him, yes. And a lot of people have said why don’t you try the legal way? If there was a way to try the legal way, we would have done it, and we wouldn’t be here.”

The petitions handed in today contained about 500 total signatures, including those of the presidents of Notre Dame, St. Mary’s and Holy Cross College.