Someone in the gubmint is actually showing signs of life.
Larry Dever is a man with a problem. The Sheriff's Department only has a staff of about 75 and a few volunteers. Cochise County is the size of Connecticutt. The tax base is small here as we only have 120,000 residents -- and a big chunk of them are soldiers from out of state.
Small tax base = small tax revenues = small staff.
The Feds reimburse his department for services rendered (mostly for incarceration costs) at a rate of about 11 cents on the dollar. About 40% of his budget gets eaten away by the illegal alien problem -- and he isn't funded for it in the first place.
ummm, ...Santa Cruz County Sherriff Estrada, do you think that if you took a look, I mean a real look, at everything that's on your plate you just might find out that you were doing most of it if followed Sheriff Deaver's lead.