The U.S.-Mexico border has been of particular interest to the Trump administration in its ongoing efforts to restrict immigration. Though unauthorized immigrants are the purported targets of measures to increase border enforcement, U.S.-born individuals of Mexican descent also bear the consequences of nativist policies. Based on 42 in-depth interviews, I focus on late-generation (third-plus) Mexican Americans to analyze individuals’ experiences with surveillance by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Nogales and Tucson, Arizona. In this study, I explore the effects of anti-immigrant policies on Mexican Americans by examining how surveillance operates in people’s everyday lives as well as how people respond to the presence of surveillance. I find that the pervasiveness of surveillance elicits a mixture of fear and desensitization from residents, as they simultaneously grow accustomed to surveillance while navigating an ever-changing political terrain. Finally, I explore responses to the authority of immigration officers, which vary from strategies of compliance to strategies of resistance. These varied approaches are complicated by the liminal status of Mexican Americans in the United States as both a racialized group and a community that benefits from some of the privileges of holding U.S. citizenship.

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附带主题：边境墨西哥裔美国人的监视正常化

特朗普政府在不断努力限制移民方面，对美墨边境特别感兴趣。尽管据称未经授权的移民是加强边境执法的措施的目标，但美国裔墨西哥裔美国人也承受着本土政策的后果。在42次深入访谈的基础上，我重点介绍了第三代（第三代以上）的墨西哥裔美国人，以分析他们在美国海关和边境保护局在Nogales和亚利桑那州图森进行监视的个人经历。在这项研究中，我将通过研究监视在人们日常生活中的运作方式以及人们对监视的反应如何来探索反移民政策对墨西哥裔美国人的影响。我发现监视的普遍性引发了居民的恐惧和不安，因为他们同时习惯了监视，同时又要适应不断变化的政治地形。最后，我探讨了对移民官员权力的回应，从遵从策略到抵抗策略不等。墨西哥裔美国人在美国既是一个种族群体又是一个从享有美国公民身份的特权中受益的社区，因此，这些多样化的方法变得更加复杂。