In this article, I examine two sites of the contemporary illegality industry in the United States: the ICE Field Office and the Immigration Court. Drawing on ongoing ethnographic engagement, including accompaniment and observations in a regional Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office and an Executive Office of Immigration Reform (EOIR) Court, I trace how human interactions and social relations in each of these bureaucratic sites structure and reinforce conditions of precarity, insecurity, and marginality among undocumented and asylum seeking people in the United States. In both sites, the enforcement power of the state is visible through the configurations of bureaucratic processes and the structures of interactions between migrants and federal government officials. Examining these two sites from the vantage point of engaged ethnography, I illustrate how routine, bureaucratic encounters (re)produce illegality and exclusion by enacting violence against migrants through the powers of surveillance and administrative monitoring, and the threat of deportation and family separation. I also reflect on the political potential that emerges through activist anthropology and accompaniment with migrants in sites of state violence.

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ICE 办公室和移民法庭：在非法区域的陪伴

在本文中，我考察了美国当代非法行业的两个地点：ICE 现场办公室和移民法庭。借鉴正在进行的民族志参与，包括在地区移民和海关执法 (ICE) 外地办事处和移民改革执行办公室 (EOIR) 法院的陪同和观察，我追溯了这些官僚机构中的每个人的互动和社会关系的结构和加剧美国无证和寻求庇护者的不稳定、不安全和边缘化状况。在这两个地方，通过官僚程序的配置以及移民与联邦政府官员之间的互动结构，可以看到国家的执法权力。从参与民族志的角度审视这两个地点，我说明了例行的官僚遭遇如何（重新）通过监视和行政监督的权力对移民实施暴力，以及驱逐和家庭分离的威胁，从而产生非法和排斥。我还反思了通过激进人类学和在国家暴力场所与移民相伴而出现的政治潜力。