With the interest of analyzing the forms of institutional violence deployed against migrant and indigenous sectors from both sides of the US-Mexico border, the authors decided to investigate the experience of indigenous women imprisoned in migrant detention centers in Texas, and in female prisons in different regions of Mexico. They consider that the experience of indigenous women in seclusion is a privileged space to analyze the contradictions that exist between the rhetoric of recognition and the real spaces of justice of the neoliberal States that, in the name of “national security,” impose the logic of criminalization against these subjects. This is a crime permeated by gender and race differences. For those who are interested in the problem of justice and equity from the experience of women, it is important to ask, in what sense does structural racism also mark the way in which crime is constructed in cases of racialized indigenous female subjects? With these concerns in mind, the researchers have launched two simultaneous investigations on the subject: one by Aída Hernández in Mexico and another by Shannon Speed in Texas.