Bruce Springsteen performs on stage at the 10th Annual Stand Up for Heroes event at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on November 1, 2016 in New York City.
Bruce Springsteen performs on stage at the 10th Annual Stand Up for Heroes event at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on November 1, 2016 in New York City.

(CNN)Bruce Springsteen went off book at his Broadway show on Sunday night to blast the administration’s border policy that has led to the separation of families.

Before launching into a performance of “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” a song that is not normally part of his setlist, Springsteen called the treatment of immigrant families at the American border “so shockingly and disgracefully inhumane and un-American that it is simply enraging,” according to a transcript provided on his official website.

“We have heard people in high position in the American government…