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Are there real "border vigilantes" like this?


Is this movie based on any sort of story or stories of people who hunt illegal along the border?

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There are volunteer vigilantes patrolling the border, but it's unclear whether they have killed anyone. Yet.



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Lol such an ominous reply

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There's a recent documentary called Cartel Land (2015) which follows an American vigilante group patrolling the Mexican border for about half of the film (the other half follows a Mexican vigilante group that tries to protect rural communities where law enforcement is either corrupt or not present and hunt members of the drug cartels). It was a pretty phenomenal doc.

There are also probably a bunch of amateur documentaries about the (American) vigilante border patrol groups on YouTube, and I know for a fact Vice has done one or two about them as well.

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