New Video: 'Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2'

WASHINGTON, July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2: Drugs, Guns, and 850 Illegal Aliens" is the Center for Immigration Studies' second web-based film on the impact of illegal alien activity in Arizona. The Center's first video on the subject, "Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border: Coyotes, Bears and Trails," has received over 52,000 views to date. This new 10-minute mini-documentary raises the bar, featuring footage of both illegal-alien entry as well as gun- and drug-smuggling. At minimum, the inescapable conclusion is that hidden cameras reveal a reality that illegal-alien activity is escalating.

The hidden camera footage, acquired from a variety of sources, indicates that there is an unfortunate lack of federal law enforcement presence on Arizona's federal land on the border in Nogales, in the Coronado National Forest (15 miles inside the border), and the Casa Grande Sector (80 miles inside the border). Also significant to the story are responses received as part of Freedom of Information Act requests made by Janice Kephart, the Center's Director of National Security Studies, in August 2009. Featured in the film is a 2004 federal government PowerPoint showing the near-complete devastation of a borderland national park due to illegal-alien activity, highlighting the disconnect between the situation on the ground in Arizona and Washington rhetoric.

"Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2: Drugs, Guns, and 850 Illegal Aliens," is available online at: http://cis.org/Videos/HiddenCameras2

The first film, "Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border: Coyotes, Bears, and Trails," is available at: http://cis.org/Videos/HiddenCameras-IllegalImmigration

The blog describing the federal government response to the July 2009 video is available at: http://www.cis.org/Kephart/HiddenCamerasUpdate

All of the Center for Immigration Studies' videos are available online at: http://cis.org/Videos

The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent research institution that examines the impact of immigration on the United States.

SOURCE Center for Immigration Studies