Immigrant Families Separated at Border Reunited at VMAS in Stunning Dig at Trump

“This is our land. We stole it fair and square.”

Rapper Logic took a moment from his performance of “One Day” at the MTV Video Music Awards Monday night to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration regime.

In a co-performance with OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder, Logic ran to the stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York wearing a “F*CK THE WALL” t-shirt.

He soon joined by dozens of ​immigrant children wearing white shirts saying “WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS.”

Before the song ended, the stage backdrop — a rendering of the border wall, crossed with yellow tape reading “US ​Border Patrol” — was dropped to reveal the parents of the children. The children rushed to them as the star-studded crowd applauded.

Soon after the performance, the VMA tweeted that “all of the people on stage” had been “impacted by immigration issues.”

The ​”powerful performance” was praised by many on Twitter, including iHeartRadio.

The children involved were identified as members of a number of immigrant and workers-support groups, including the National Domestic Workers Alliance and United We Dream.

The Domestic Workers Alliance issued a statement following the show identifying a number of the participating teens as recipients of the Deferred Action for Children Arrival program, which President Trump ​has sought to dismantle.

Logic’s performance mirrored the message of ​the music video for “One Day,” which was released on Friday. The video depicts the life two boys — an immigrant ripped from his family at the US-Mexico border, and a boy raised into white supremacy.

In the video, a white nationalist is heard in voiceover telling the rapt white teenager: “This is our country. This is our land. We stole it fair and square.”

According to The Washington Post, there are still 565 ​children still separated as of August 16.

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