What happens after deportation? What contexts must Mexican deportees navigate and contend with after removal from the United States? This article explores the challenges for people postremoval in Mexico, particularly by drawing on fieldwork conducted in Tamaulipas, which is home to the Zetas drug trafficking organization and the infamous massacre of seventy-two migrants. We argue that incidental exposure to violence and crime began as an implicit aspect of immigration enforcement and has grown into one of the central tenets of current policy. We take a feminist geopolitical approach to connect the postdeportation experiences of migrants to the policies of deportation, incarceration, and punishment levied against them by the U.S. government. Migrants, particularly those apprehended through the Criminal Alien Program, have been returned to Tamaulipas in concentrated numbers despite its violent reputation. The processes of criminalization have led to a system that prioritizes punishment for migrants, meaning that we cannot extricate experiences that occur after removal from enforcement measures that create those situations. These practices are directly connected to the current wave of policies aimed at stopping asylum seekers, including “metering,” where people are made to wait at the border to apply for asylum at the port of entry, and the Remain in Mexico program (otherwise known as the Migrant Protection Protocols). We argue that enforcement is more complex than “prevention through deterrence” narratives and exposure to nonstate violence in Mexico has slowly become a more integral part of enforcement plans.

驱逐出境后会怎样？墨西哥被驱逐出境者在离开美国后必须在什么情况下与之抗衡？本文探讨了在墨西哥遣散人员所面临的挑战，特别是利用在Zeaus贩毒组织和臭名昭著的72个移民大屠杀的Tamaulipas进行的实地调查。我们认为，偶然接触暴力和犯罪始于移民执法的一个隐含方面，现已发展成为当前政策的核心原则之一。我们采取女权主义的地缘政治方法，将移民的驱逐出境经历与美国政府对他们实施的驱逐，监禁和惩罚政策联系起来。移民，特别是通过“外国人犯罪计划”逮捕的移民，尽管声名狼藉，但仍被大量返还给塔毛利帕斯州。刑事定罪程序导致建立了一种优先考虑对移民的惩罚的制度，这意味着我们不能从取消造成这种情况的执法措施中解脱出来的经验。这些做法与当前的旨在阻止寻求庇护者的政策浪潮直接相关，包括“计量”，即迫使人们在边境等待入境口岸的庇护申请，以及“在墨西哥保留”计划（否则称为“作为移民保护协议）。我们认为执法比“通过威慑预防”的叙述要复杂得多，在墨西哥暴露于非国家暴力已逐渐成为执法计划中不可或缺的一部分。