Investigative sleuth Mark Ebner spent

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Investigative sleuth Mark Ebner spent some time last week hanging with the "Minutemen" in and around Tombstone, Arizona. The Minutemen are a bunch of volunteer border patrol shmoes trying to stop the flow of illegals over the border from Mexico. Ebner's report will appear in the Globe sometime next week. (There's no URL link to the story.) Of course, there's a journey-of-discovery love story in the basic situation, in the vein of Tony Richardson's The Border ('82). One of the militamen -- an unhappy married guy, no kids -- falls in love with a Mexican girl with a baby, and ultimately decides to betray the Minuteman ethos in order to help this girl get started in the States and provide a decent future for her son.