Illegal Immigrant Graduates Celebrated at Harvard with ‘UndocuGraduation’ Ceremony

On May 28, Harvard University will have its official commencement. The speaker will be Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany.
Merkel’s power may be diminished somewhat by the machinations of politics in ol’ Deutschland, but she’s still the leader of a major world power and key U.S. ally — and that should count for something.
She’ll tell Harvard some very Merkellian things, and some very Harvard-y people will also say some stuff that’ll no doubt sound very Harvard-like, and that’ll be that.
On Wednesday, however, a different sort of commencement ceremony was held. It was titled UndocuGraduation, a graduation ceremony for students who aren’t here in the country legally.
The ceremony wasn’t thrown by the university, but instead by a group that wants to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Merkel — who has her own considerable baggage when it comes to immigration — was not present to speak. Perhaps most of the controversy involved who was: A professor arrested in 2017 for protesting President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as of a package of immigration reforms he instituted by executive action (or tried to, pending court challenges.)
“More than 50 students, faculty, staff, and administrators gathered in the Student Organization Center at Hilles Wednesday evening to honor undocumented members of the Class of 2019,” The Harvard Crimson reported.
The event — dubbed “UndocuGraduation” — marked the first reception held by student-run immigration advocacy group Act on a Dream to celebrate undocumented graduates.
“The event was organized to highlight the struggles and the ways in which undocumented students persevere on this campus,” Act on a Dream co-director Emily A. Romero told the student newspaper.

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