Abstract
ABSTRACT This article argues that aviation infrastructures utilized by ICE Air Operations for deportations should be understood as texts that materialize rhetorical borders and anti-migrant discourses. Deportation flights originating from King County International Airport provide one vantage point into common spatial and structural tactics ICE deploys to obfuscate and expand vast infrastructural networks of migrant control. Infrastructures of forced movement generated by ICE Air Operations transform airplanes into mobile sites of migrant detention that are paradoxically both rhetorically obscured and hypervisible, produce weaponized absences and informational gaps around deportations, and trap migrants in exploitative cycles of simultaneous forced mobility and immobility.
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