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Immigration Justice Advocates Treated To Special Screening Of 'In The Heights' For All Their Hard Work

According to Lin-Manuel Miranda, the film version of the hit musical had a DACA-related storyline added to it.

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I want to thank all of you. All of you have dedicated your work — and in many cases, a large part of your lives — to working on behalf of immigrant communities and ultimately to moving our nation forward on an issue where it’s so hard to make progress. We are emerging from this dark episode in our nation’s history where immigrants were demonized and sometimes brutalized in a way that has shocked our conscience. The work is not done. There is so much more to do. But we move forward as a society because people like you envision it, demand it, and lead us forward. Thank you. Thank you so much for putting yourselves out there, for doing the work that you believe in, and for dragging this country along to a better place.

— Dean Melanie Leslie of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, delivering a message of thanks to a theater full of immigration justice advocates who gathered to watch an advance screening of In the Heights, a film based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical. The screening was organized by Cardozo Law School and Miranda’s family. As Miranda noted in a brief speech, the film version of the musical had a DACA-related storyline added to it. “Immigration has only grown as the front page topic for the Latino community here in the United States,” he said. “DACA is one of many immigration policy reforms that so many of you who are tonight have fought so hard to advance. Thank you.”

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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