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This reallife Western tells the story of how citizens in a small Arizona border town stood up to antiimmigrant militias and vigilantes

The Marauders uncovers the riveting nonfiction saga of farright militias terrorizing the border towns of southern Arizona In one of the towns profiled Arivaca rogue militia members killed a man and his nineyearold daughter in 2009 In response the residents organized and spent two years trying to push the new militias out through boycotts and by urging local businesses to ban them The militias and vigilante groups again raised the stakes spreading Pizzagatestyle conspiracy theories alleging that town residents were complicit in child sex trafficking prompting fears of vigilante violence

The Marauders flips the standard formula most often applied to stories about immigration and the far right Too often those stories are told from the perspective of the ones committing the violence While Strickland doesnt shy away from exploring those dark themes the far right are not the protagonists of the book Rather the people targeted by hate groups and the individuals who rose up to stop them in their tracks are the heroes of this dramatic story