Cristina’s project, Violence in the Time of the Border Industrial Complex, explores the construction of race, gender, sexuality, and nation within an increasingly privatized and militarized system of border policing. Her work focuses on the ways Mexican bodies are read as hypersexual, hyperfertile, and diseased in order to justify targeting migrants for evolving forms of state violence. Specifically, the manuscript considers how the current border regime pairs conventional forms of violence with the use of new surveillance technologies to rework the spatial and temporal coordinates of the US-Mexico border.