In 2011, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officially launched its online locator system, an internet-based public tool designed to assist attorneys, family members, and interested entities in locating detained individuals in ICE custody. In November 2019, Freedom For Immigrants (FFI), an immigrant rights organization, conducted surveys of individuals and organizations attempting to locate detainees and found 698 instances of migrants disappearing from the online locator system, with the search stating “zero matching records.” With this in mind, this essay explores technologies of invisibility of the carceral web through ethnographic observation and testimonies collected in immigration detention. I use the term “carceral web” by Susila Gurusami to refer to the spatial intersection between carceral institutions and digital technologies that unveil the entanglements and workings of the carceral edgelands. I argue that the ICE locator system, a public tool for migrant identification and placement, not only showcases state-enforced disappearance but reveals a process of invisibilization and structural violence temporally and spatially at work.

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找到零匹配记录：Carceral Web 景观中的强迫失踪

2011 年，美国移民和海关执法局正式推出其在线定位器系统，这是一种基于互联网的公共工具，旨在帮助律师、家庭成员和有关实体定位 ICE 拘留的被拘留者。2019 年 11 月，移民权利组织 Freedom For Immigrants (FFI) 对试图寻找被拘留者的个人和组织进行了调查，发现 698 例移民从在线定位系统中消失，搜索结果为“零匹配记录”。考虑到这一点，本文通过民族志观察和在移民拘留期间收集的证词，探讨了监狱网的隐形技术。我使用 Susila Gurusami 的术语“carceral web”来指代 carceral 机构和数字技术之间的空间交集，揭示了 carceral edgelands 的纠缠和运作。我认为 ICE 定位器系统是一种用于识别和安置移民的公共工具，它不仅展示了国家强迫失踪，而且揭示了一个在时间和空间上起作用的隐形化和结构性暴力的过程。