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     In this solo show, Giselle Stern Hernández’s marriage is laid out on the front lines of the North American immigration debate.  Giselle’s husband Roberto was deported from Chicago, Illinois back to Mexico in April of 2001.  Giselle moved to Mexico to live with him in August of that same year.  While she was born and raised in the States, and they were legally married, it didn't make any difference at all.  Her husband was deported, with the order to stay out of the U.S. for twenty years.  And in 2007, the day came that he also wasn't allowed to enter Canada.  In THE DEPORTEE’S WIFE, Giselle takes the audience through her journey to face hard truths about how race, class, white U.S. privilege and gender intersect within the structures of a badly broken immigration system. Through her words and images, Giselle reveals a complicated love story.