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This chapter develops the argument that the “zero tolerance” immigration policy, also known as “family separation” policy, implemented by President Trump in 2018, has functioned as a border and borderization regime, and that this has made management and the punishment of children and adolescents a mechanism for disincentivizing, controlling and punishing migrant populations. It is proposed that, when analyzing the rationales and technologies that this immigration policy applied to children and adolescents, what we discover is a “borderization regime” based on the criminalization of migration, the racialization of children’s bodies and the use of the concept of “innocence ” as a justification for the reinsertion of national borders and the values of a right-wing and supremacist political regime. This chapter seeks to establish a dialogue with studies on immigration detention, deprivation of liberty and immigration policy as State violence.