Border Battles (2011)★ 7.8/10

US · December 28, 2011 · 1 seasons

• Reality TV

Directed by: Gabe Torres

Based on book written by one of the creators of the minutemen that patrol the Calif, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico border with Mexico. It is a docudrama reenactment about actual events that took place while guarding the border from illegal aliens, drug smugglers, human traffickers, and terrorists sneaking across the border. Realizing that the us border patrol agents are spread to thin and need help, it became political as one of the leaders of the minutemen decided to run for office as citizens land owners and minutemen supported him. This explores the dangers these citizens risked every day they left their homes to help protect the border. True to life events reenacted as written in the book, see the dangers they experienced as border bandits, smugglers,drug cartels and Mexican police, some corrupt and some not battle one another and the minutemen.