In the United States, undocumented Latinx immigrants’ precarious social positions are rooted in aggressive immigration enforcement practices that create a contestant threat of detection and deportation. This threat extends into the US interior, and in some US cities, immigrant policing practices rely on law enforcement officers racially profiling Latinx immigrants. Several social scientists have described the numerous consequences of racially-based immigrant policing, but insufficient scholarship examines the role urban and suburban spaces play in constructing the policing regimes that structure undocumented immigrants’ precarity. In this article, I examine the relationship between immigration enforcement regimes, automobiles, and the suburban roadways in a previously rural Central Florida exurb. Using frameworks of automobility, illegality, and necropolitics, I show how Central Florida’s expanding suburban infrastructure contributes to immigrant policing efforts. I further show how spectacles of immigration enforcement, such as parking border patrol vehicles along specific highways, are performances of state power to reinforce racial hierarchies. Overall, I argue that spatial and material conditions—such as driving vehicles that law enforcement officers associate with undocumented immigrants on specific roadways—serve to simultaneously underscore undocumented immigrants’ vulnerability and to signal to white residents how law enforcement officers maintain white supremacy by targeting undocumented Latinx drivers.

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监管种族和行使国家权力：佛罗里达州中部的移民执法和无证拉丁裔移民不稳定

在美国，无证拉丁裔移民不稳定的社会地位植根于激进的移民执法做法，这种做法造成了被发现和驱逐出境的竞争威胁。这种威胁延伸到美国内陆，在美国的一些城市，移民警察的做法依赖于执法人员对拉丁裔移民进行种族定性。几位社会科学家描述了基于种族的移民警务的众多后果，但没有足够的学术研究考察城市和郊区空间在构建构成无证移民不稳定的警务制度中所起的作用。在本文中，我将研究移民执法制度、汽车和以前佛罗里达州中部郊区的郊区道路之间的关系。使用汽车、非法、和死灵政治，我展示了佛罗里达州中部不断扩大的郊区基础设施如何促进移民警务工作。我进一步展示了移民执法的奇观，例如在特定高速公路上停放边境巡逻车，是国家权力的表现，以加强种族等级制度。总的来说，我认为空间和物质条件——例如执法人员在特定道路上驾驶与无证移民相关联的车辆——有助于同时强调无证移民的脆弱性，并向白人居民发出信号，执法人员如何通过针对无证移民来维持白人至上。拉丁驱动程序。例如在特定高速公路上停放边境巡逻车，是强化种族等级制度的国家权力表现。总的来说，我认为空间和物质条件——例如执法人员在特定道路上驾驶与无证移民相关联的车辆——有助于同时强调无证移民的脆弱性，并向白人居民发出信号，执法人员如何通过针对无证移民来维持白人至上。拉丁驱动程序。例如在特定高速公路上停放边境巡逻车，是强化种族等级制度的国家权力表现。总的来说，我认为空间和物质条件——例如执法人员在特定道路上驾驶与无证移民相关联的车辆——有助于同时强调无证移民的脆弱性，并向白人居民发出信号，执法人员如何通过针对无证移民来维持白人至上。拉丁驱动程序。