"It's 'graduation day' for students who are in the country illegally and who say they want a pathway to residency and a chance for a better life. Up to 100 illegal immigrant college students in Orange County will join the expected hundreds of others across the country scheduled to walk in mock graduation ceremonies today, organizers say," The Orange County Register reports. "'It's in solidarity to support the plight of undocumented students,' said Alexis Nava, a member of the Orange County Dream Team, who helped coordinate today's ceremony. 'It's a mock graduation to be symbolic, recognition of what students face once they graduate.' The 6 p.m. ceremony in Orange is intended to support the DREAM Act, which would allow undocumented students to apply for legal permanent resident status, protect them from deportation and make them eligible for student loans and federal work study programs."