Border security infrastructure doesn't just stop crossings — it redraws who can use public space: a 15-month ethnography found the built security apparatus (fencing, checkpoints) produces social and legal processes that bar Latinx residents from parks, roads, and freeways "free of harassment or fear of deportation" through ethnic profiling.

— In our words · Source: Border Security Infrastructure Projects: Space, Access, and Mobility in the San Diego-Tijuana Transborder Region (Manuel Guadalupe Galaviz)