Tracing Food Packs and Tuna Cans on La Línea: Food, Water, and Foodways during Transborder Travel

The US government continues to spend billions of dollars on “invasion prevention” technologies, forces, and tactics to control and stop unauthorized entry into the United States by brown bodies. The deployment of this border control apparatus is evident in isolated rural areas of the great Sonoran Desert where the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has strategically erected tactical infrastructures designed to funnel brown immigrant bodies into spaces where nature can enforce human laws that restrict movement across geopolitical boundaries. Feminist political ecologist and geographer Juanita Sundberg questions why DHS agencies like the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) continue