A pdf is available by request to jmheyman@utep.edu . Proposes three perspectives on deportability: anticipation (anxiety, fear, etc.) and coping responses; direct experiences of arrest, detention, and deportation; and memories of self and others concerning deportations. Argues that these three perspectives are spread across various scales of social organization, both dividing and unifying people in mixed status communities: individual, household and kin group, neighbors, settlement areas and regions. Examines immigrant community organizing as a way to reorganize and fortify bonds in mixed-status communities at risk of fracture by deportability.