First Movement: DACA
1. For references to the strategies of the sovereign on the body politic to assert control, see Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York: Pantheon, 1977).
2. Details adapted from Jad Abumrad in “Border Trilogy Part 2: Hold the Line,” April 5, 2018, RadioLab, produced by Matt Kielty, Latif Nasser, Bethel Habte, and Tracie Hunte, podcast, MP3 audio, 51:53, https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/border-trilogy-part-2-hold-line.
Third Movement: Sentence Served
1. Merriam-Webster, s.v. “decimate,” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimate.
2. Line adapted from and in dedication to C. D. Wright’s ShallCross (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2016).
3. From the opening line of Federico García Lorca’s poem “Romance sonámbulo,” in The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca (1955; repr., New York: New Directions, 2005).
4. All historical details of the “El Paso solution” and others found here come from David Dorado Romo, Ringside Seats to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juárez, 1983–1923 (El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos, 2005).
5. From Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, Department of Homeland Security.
Fourth Movement: Glass
1. List form adapted from Danez Smith’s poem “Alternate Names for Black Boys,” in [Insert] Boy (Portland, OR: Yesyes Books, 2014).
2. “U and T Visa Law Enforcement Guide for Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Law Enforcement, Prosecutors, Judges and Other Government Agencies,” Department of Homeland Security, https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/U-and-T-Visa-Law-Enforcement-Resource%20Guide_1.4.16.pdf, p. 4.
3. “A federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agency, prosecutor, judge, or other government official can complete [a certification] for a victim who is petitioning USCIS for a U visa.” Ibid., p. 5.
4. “The decision whether to sign a certification is at the certifying agency’s discretion. Each certifying agency should exercise its discretion on a case-by-case basis consistent with applicable U.S. laws and regulations, and the policies and procedures outlined in this guide as well as any internal policies of the certifying agency.” Ibid., p. 6.
Fifth Movement: Asylum
1. UN General Assembly, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 10 December 1948.