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As an anthropologist interested in the ways that undocumented immigrants experience structures of state power, I am using this project to explore the ways in which the Adelanto Detention Center located in the high desert in California is used as tool for incarcerality, deportation and violations of human rights. While the facility was previously used as a state prison since 1991, it was later bought by the city of Adelanto and then expanded into an immigration detention center that holds up to 2,000 detainees in 2011.