Since President Trump took office in 2017, he has implemented dozens of restrictive immigration laws at the expense of women and people of color. The rapid barrage of policies has confounded international and domestic commentators alike, prompting outrage and a sense of powerlessness. In this thesis, I interrogate the historical underpinnings of Trump-era immigration policies to demonstrate the deep-seated racism and sexism that have informed American immigration policy dating back to the nineteenth century. I apply an intersectional framework to the 2020 birth tourism regulation, which discriminates against women from non-Western countries, and well as interviews with two women resettling as refugees in Oklahoma City who navigate the U.S. resettlement program’s emphasis on employment at the expense of language. In doing so, I present immigration policy as a political tool that disproportionately impacts women of color and whose structural violences continue long past a migrant’s arrival in a new location. In centering intersectionality and agency alongside structural violence, I contribute to literature on “borderscapes,” which seeks to amplify the possibilities for hope, opposition, and counter-hegemonic political agency in the context of exclusionary globalization.