Parents and students heading to Notre Dame’s campus Sunday will be joined by hundreds of protesters. Anti-abortion protesters, who oppose President Barack Obama speaking at commencement, got a city permit for graduation day. They will be allowed to stand or walk along Angela Boulevard from SR 933 to Notre Dame Avenue.

Hundreds of people from around the country are expected to congregate outside Notre Dame’s gates. At least three bus loads of people are coming from Chicago. They say they’ll hold signs along Angela Boulevard. They say it will be peaceful and nobody will break the law.

“It will be probably a lot of families. It will be elderly, young people, a mixture...just holding signs," Paul Troiani from Center for Bio-Ethical Reform in Columbus, Ohio, says. "Very graphic signs of abortion, mostly in the first trimester, juxtaposed of President Obama. We want this debate to be well informed. That's why we've been driving pictures of aborted babies on the sides of trucks around town and this campus for three weeks."

Legally, the protesters are able to stand on the sidewalks and tree lines, but not in the street and not on your private property. Homeowners are able to buy a ‘no trespassing’ sign for $6 from the South Bend Police Department.

“As a society, we're somewhat immune to most everything that goes on around us unless it's on our front door step," says Victor Saftiuk, who lives on Angela Boulevard. "As long as they don't interfere with my comings and goings, it's somewhat irrelevant. Everyone is entitled to freedom of speech.”

And then Saftiuk jokes about his defense system if the protesters get out of hand.

"As far as the sprinklers...well...they're here to nurture the lawn and it's not inconceivable that perhaps they might nurture some of the...some of the protesters."

Twin Notre Dame graduates, whose parents have a home along Angela Boulevard, say the protesters could be double trouble.

"Commencement was supposed to be about celebrating our last four years of achievements and now it's all about abortion," KC Hunt says. "I don't want my 13-year-old sister to have to see this as she's walking to something that's not about this issue at all."

"I understand people might have problems with it, but on the day...it's supposed to be a celebration of our class," her twin and fellow graduate, Laurie Hunt, says.

"We'd probably not have them on our yard," says Erin Craig, who also lives along Angela.

Craig says she doesn’t mind the protesting, just not the graphic nature of it, and just not in front of her home.

"We're going to be home that day and I'm going to have the kids, so, we want it to be peaceful,” Craig says. “I'm ready for it to be over."