Sandra Delgado’s impassioned new theater piece “Hundreds and Hundreds of Stars” makes three points about the dysfunction of the U.S. immigration system that strike me as irrefutable, whatever your political leanings.

One is the unfairness of holding immigrants to higher standards than U.S. citizens, as distinct from holding them to the same standards, which is the American way. Another is the inhumanity of deporting someone who was brought to the U.S. as an infant and has lived their whole lives here, unaware of any other “home.” A third is the overwhelmed federal system’s cold anonymity, where record checks and AI-driven matches are privileged over looking at the actual human being in question, not just their past actions but what they might contribute in the future.

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