Lechuga layer Latina/o/x Rhetorical Studies scholarship on bordering and exclusion over a materialist theory of assemblages to make sense of how interior checkpoints utilize multidimensional expressions of statehood to control the movements of Latina/o/x migrants and citizen communities inside the boundaries of the US. Lechuga describes the legal apparatuses that justify the use of IBCs and how CBP enforcement protocol is materialized at IBCs, including a brief discussion of border security technology and personnel. Lechuga focuses specifically on the role the IBCs play in enforcing the US's anti-migration laws that target Latina/o/x migrants, residents, and US citizens moving through and around the checkpoints.
This talk ends with a discussion of the importance of adopting critical and complex rhetorical frameworks to study the multidimensional expressions of settler colonial power over communities of color."
