--- title: Chrissy Teigen Brought Her Son to Immigration March description: “Baby’s first rally,” Chrissy Teigen captioned the photo she shared of her son at the #KeepFamiliesTogether rally canonical: https://time.com/5327918/chrissy-teigen-immigration-march/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-02T14:33:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:37.714Z og:title: Chrissy Teigen Brought Her Son to Immigration March og:description: “Baby’s first rally,” Teigen captioned the photo she shared og:url: https://time.com/5327918/chrissy-teigen-immigration-march/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a01b3095ab51dc5/69893468096a9448e76a2d08/gettyimages-988395572.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Families Belong Together - Freedom For Immigrants March - Los Angeles, CA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chrissy Teigen Brought Her Son to Immigration March twitter:description: “Baby’s first rally,” Teigen captioned the photo she shared twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a01b3095ab51dc5/69893468096a9448e76a2d08/gettyimages-988395572.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chrissy Teigen Brought Her Son to Immigration March by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 2, 2018 2:33 PM UTC  LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 30: Chrissy Teigen speaks at the Families Belong Together - Freedom For Immigrants March at Los Angeles City Hall on June 30, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sarah Morris/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 30: Chrissy Teigen speaks at the Families Belong Together - Freedom For Immigrants March at Los Angeles City Hall on June 30, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sarah Morris/Getty Images)Sarah Morris—Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 2, 2018 2:33 PM UTC When it comes to political activism, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend believe in starting them young. Teigen shared a photo of herself on Instagram on stage at the Families Belong Together march in Los Angeles on Saturday wearing her 6-week-old son, Miles, while giving a speech protesting President Donald Trump’s [immigration policies](http://time.com/5325904/trump-immigration-policy-protest-senate/). In the Instagram post, Teigen wrote: “baby’s first rally. #keepfamiliestogether.” “I’m incredibly proud to be the daughter of an immigrant,” Teigen said in the speech, [according to _People_](https://people.com/babies/chrissy-teigen-brings-son-miles-families-belong-together/). “My mother grew up in a very small village in Thailand and she never lets me forget it.” She added that “America at its best is big, beautiful and diverse, like our great city of Los Angeles.” Teigen and Miles weren’t the only family members on hand for the rally, Legend also appeared on stage to perform his new song, “Preach.” Teigen and Legend are among the many [celebrities that supported](http://time.com/5327366/families-belong-together-celebrity-support/) the Families Belong Together march, including Mindy Kaling, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kerry Washington, and Selena Gomez. They were among the thousands of people who gathered at an estimated 700 [Families Belong Together marches](http://time.com/5323351/families-belong-together-march-june-30/) across the country on Saturday to protest. Trump’s “zero tolerance policy” has led officials to separate more than 2,000 children from their parents as they tried to enter the country illegally, most of them fleeing turmoil in their home countries. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5327918/chrissy-teigen-immigration-march/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5327918/chrissy-teigen-immigration-march/"},"headline":"Chrissy Teigen Brought Her Son to Immigration March","datePublished":"2018-07-02T14:33:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:37.714Z","description":"“Baby’s first rally,” Teigen captioned the photo she shared of her son at the march","url":"https://time.com/5327918/chrissy-teigen-immigration-march/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Chrissy Teigen","john legend"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a01b3095ab51dc5/69893468096a9448e76a2d08/gettyimages-988395572.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a01b3095ab51dc5/69893468096a9448e76a2d08/gettyimages-988395572.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Families Belong Together - Freedom For Immigrants March - Los Angeles, CA","caption":"Families Belong Together - Freedom For Immigrants March - Los Angeles, CA","creditText":"Sarah Morris—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5327918/chrissy-teigen-immigration-march/","name":"Chrissy Teigen Brought Her Son to Immigration March"}}]}] ```