Lin-Manuel Miranda [1]'s latest music video for "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)" is resonating profoundly with those who view it. The six-minute song comes from the widely successful The Hamilton Mixtape and showcases immigrants as hard workers and as part of the fabric of America. "It's really astonishing that in a country founded by immigrants, immigrant has somehow become a bad word," a male voice can be heard saying over a radio in the clip.
The video, which had been viewed nearly 500,000 times at press time, promotes funding for the nonprofit immigrants-rights group Immigrant: We Get the Job Done Coalition. It also comes after the Supreme Court recently announced it would be allow a rehearing of the Alejandro Rodriguez case involving a young immigrant who was detained without a hearing [2] for three years following a conviction for joyriding and misdemeanor possession.
Miranda and several other celebrities [4] have called on their fans to upload and share videos of themselves performing songs from the Broadway musical Hamiltion with #Ham4All in order to get the message out. Watch the Tomás Whitmore-directed music in full video above.