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.
With all that going against Sheriff Dever (and the lameness of the other nearby sheriffs and police chiefs) I felt what he's trying to do is nothing short of magnificent.