Vigilance aside, there are always breaks in the border allowing undocumented satire to sneak across. Lopez & Rivera's boisterous Why Cybraceros? (U.S., 1997, 4:30 mins, VHS, From the artists) foresees a new class of cyber-migrant exporting pure labor without the messy body attached. Flying saucers and the "Alien Survival Kit" may have been gimmicks of 1950s media but Luis Valdovino's rude Work in Progress (U.S., 1992, 14 mins, Beta SP, From the artist) shows how America's immigration policy is still informed by such invasive concepts. Amid a farrago of film clips, folk ballads, newsreels, and interviews, this deceptively whimsical tape journeys to la frontera, the final frontier, to study our alien phobia. Not AAA approved, Tony Labat's Room Service (U.S., 1980, 7 mins, 3/4" video, From EAI) has the brash artist playing a newly arrived immigrant about to order his first meal. By repeating the necessary English phrases in comic repetition, nausea precedes the meal. Tapia-Urzua's spangled Spanglish (U.S., 1994, 15 mins, In English and Spanish with English subtitles, 3/4" video, From VDB) imagines a surreal landscape of multiple identities crossing the borders of sensuality, language, and capital gone bad. In The Great Mojado Invasion (26 mins, In English and Spanish with English subtitles, 3/4" video, From Video Data Bank) the Second U.S.-Mexico War is fought and this time Mexico wins. Minus the border, the nation devolves into micro-republics governed by the Spanglish-speaking "Gran Vato." Using a batch of Mexploitation clips, Gómez-Peña and Vazquez have assembled a terrifically tacky take on the fall of the Old Order.-Steve Seid