As immigrant rights movements and anti-immigrant mobilizations engage in contentious battles for public support, it is increasingly essential to understand how these opposing political forces develop strategic alliances, garnering power, and shaping larger debates around immigration. Using newspaper data, this study compares case studies of immigrant rights and nativist battles in two mobilizations—the 2012 “No Papers, No Fear Ride for Justice” during the Obama Era and the 2018 “Family Separation Protests” during the Trump Era—to analyze how movements and counter-movements strategically deploy frames to generate or disrupt strategic alliances. Findings identify strategic racial frame deployment as a mechanism that can either amplify or obfuscate racial meanings, enabling, and constraining counter-frames by rival movements. I highlight patterns in how these racial frames are used in framing contests to bring groups together in alliances or wedge groups apart, illuminating the underlying system of racialization as it shapes intergroup boundaries, its limits, and its radical possibilities for transformation.

随着移民权利运动和反移民动员参与争夺公众支持的激烈斗争，了解这些对立的政治力量如何发展战略联盟、获得权力并形成围绕移民的更大辩论变得越来越重要。本研究使用报纸数据，比较了两次动员中移民权利和本土主义斗争​​的案例研究——奥巴马时代的 2012 年“没有文件，没有为正义而恐惧”和特朗普时代的 2018 年“家庭分离抗议”——以分析运动和反运动如何战略性地部署框架以产生或破坏战略联盟。调查结果将战略性种族框架部署确定为一种可以放大或混淆的机制种族意义，支持和限制竞争运动的反框架。我强调了这些种族框架如何用于构建竞赛以将群体聚集在联盟或楔形群体中的模式，阐明种族化的基本系统，因为它塑造了群体间的界限，它的限制，以及它彻底转变的可能性。