The CLACLS summer research grant enabled me to conduct follow-up interviews and digital archival research to analyze how the flows of state violence produced by the U.S. deportation apparatus and the Mexican migratory management converge in Tijuana’s border regime and migratory crisis. In Tijuana, Mexicans deported from the U.S. and asylum seekers attempting to cross the Mexico-U.S. border have overwhelmed non-governmental organization (NGO) shelters. My summer research engaged with questions about the ongoing border crisis and itsimpacts over deported and migrant people in Tijuana. The SAR-COV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted my summer research plans. I planned to interview deported persons residing in Tijuana and NGO workers to examine how binational border security reinforcements and recent cartel violence have impacted deportees’ itineraries to return to the United States and the shelters’ ongoing projects. I also planned to consult the Tijuana Municipal Institute of Art and Culture’s(IMAC) newspaper library, which is currently closed. Despite the partial shutdown of the Mexican-U.S. border, deportations to Tijuana have continued. To control the coronavirus outbreak, the Tijuana City Council has forced the lockdown of shelters. Because it was impossible to travel to Tijuana, I decided to employ a research assistant to coordinate phone/virtual interviews. A key research participant contacted when I volunteered—during I conducted extensive fieldwork in 2019—at the NGO Deported Mothers in Action agreed to assist with interview facilitation through the Zoom phone application. My assistant made on-the ground contact with identified research participants. This research shift required an on-the ground assistant because my interviewees move constantly and lack devices to communicate, and because shelters are closed. I shifted my archival research to the University of California San Diego’s digital collections to delve into the municipal policies and programs have configured the recent historical changes of Tijuana’s border development and urbanization. I consulted UCSD’s online collection of Tijuana municipal reports focusing on the “Urban Development” sections from 2010 to the present. This allowed me to identify the government’s discourses around the investment and reinforcement of security programs implemented in tourist and border spaces. Conducting phone/virtual interviews and digital-archival research have enabled me to write up my dissertation introduction and historical chapter and give insight into how the pandemic has impacted my research participants’ lives. For future a key contributor will make on-the-ground contact with identified research participants and, together, we will conduct more follow-up semi-structed interview.