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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The award-winning actor and writer of the Broadway hit musical "Hamilton" says the play is a needed reminder during a heated political season that "immigrants get the job done." Lin-Manuel Miranda stars as Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and also wrote the inventive, biographical hip-hop show about the life of the founding father. Speaking at the University of Pennsylvania commencement Monday, he said that even as politics is trafficking in what he called "anti-immigrant rhetoric," there is also a musical "reminding us that a broke orphan immigrant from the West Indies built our financial system." Miranda, who also got an honorary doctorate, told the graduates that "Since the beginning of the great unfinished symphony that is our American experiment, time and time again immigrants get the job done."

'Hamilton' star says 'immigrants get the job done'