Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the hit Broadway musical „Hamilton,“ broke out into song on Saturday, singing a lullaby at a protest in Washington,…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the hit Broadway musical „Hamilton,“ broke out into song on Saturday, singing a lullaby at a protest in Washington, D. C. that he dedicated to the migrant parents that have been separated from their children.
„We’re here because there’s parents right now who can’t sing lullabies to their kids,“ Miranda said. „And, well, I’m just going to sing a lullaby that I wrote. And this is for those parents, and we’re not going to stop until they can sing them to their kids again.“
Miranda was among several speakers at the „Families Belong Together“ march in Washington’s Lafayette Square, just across from the White House.
The march was one among hundreds taking place across the country on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s „zero-tolerance“ immigration policy prioritizing the prosecution of people who cross into the U. S. illegally through Mexico.
That policy has led to the separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents at the U. S. border, sparking public outrage nationwide.
President Trump capitulated to public pressure last week, signing an executive order allowing children to be detained with their parents. But the details of how the government plans to enforce that order remain murky, due to a 1997 consent decree barring the detention of minors for more than 20 days.
A federal judge in San Diego this week ordered the government to quickly reunite children with their parents, giving officials 14 days to reunite children under the age of 5 and 30 days for older children.
It’s not yet clear how the government will meet that deadline.
