little guy hiding behind a curtain. it s crazy. reporter: we ll have to leave it there, billy. it is a really tough situation. i know you ll stay on top of it and keep giving them a hard time to get what you need. thanks tonight. that is the latest from the gulf. back to you now, anderson. randi, thanks. up next, to the front lines, battle on the border with the arizona deputies drawing fire for their crackdown on illegal immigrants and controversial sheriff who says he s just doing the job he was elected to. we go out with my volunteer posse. i have 3,000 volunteer posse, about 400 carry guns. you sound like a cowboy. no. yeah, you know, i do act like a cowboy. but instead of going after horse thieves, i go after car thieves. things have changed. sheriff joe arpaio joins us. that fence along the border, lot of promises made over the years, lot of money spent, $2.5 billion, four years gone by so far. the work is mostly done but the fence isn t and it s probably
fields, no. reporter: temperatures have climbed to 102. as it gets hotter, the sun gets brighter, your mind starts playing tricks on you. are they purple, are they green? you start not being able to make out the colors anymore. these are purple, though. the trucks start getting loaded up with the grapes we re picking. i m doing some wheelbarrow duty, which can t be good for the back. i knew before i started this work would be hard. i didn t realize how monotonous it would be. these people do it six days a week. i haven t looked at my watch so much and it s not even lunchtime yet. delicious grapes, hot off the vine. the afternoon goes slower than the morning. benjamin stays on top of me to get rid of the green grapes. at 2:30 pm, 8 1/2 hours after we started, our final load of grapes. this is the last. it s quitting time.
there s mass exodus. benjamin, maria and i have done 900 boxes. that s a $30 bonus for the two of them. i wish benjamin and maria luck as they head home as quickly as possible. they have to do it all over again at 6:00 am. that s clearly one grape field. what about the bigger picture? we turn now to tom foreman. are illegal immigrants taking the jobs of americans? that really depends on where you live. we spent the day talking to folks on both sides of this debate and looking at studies. the labor department says there are 130 million jobs in the united states. and the poou hispanic center, which does some very good work on this says there s about 8 million illegal immigrants in the workforce. where gary was out in california or, if you talk about nevada or in arizona, over here, there are
casing in of the relief well. that is set to go if this static kill doesn t work. if they do the static kill, and it works, that s going to actually that will help the end relief well sealing or kill there. if it doesn t work, they notice leakage, that will give valuable data when they go about doing the actual relief well sealing which still is slated for mid august. as far as that is concerned, status quo here, looking for another briefing from thadal later in the day which may shed light on when and if they do the static kill later this week. rob marciano live from gulf shore. your money, the president s signature. later this morning, hopefully we will see both of them combined. president obama signing into law the biggest financial reforms in decades. the senate passed the massive 2,300 page bill. president obama says it will end taxpayer bailouts.
it had hoped to start a static kill, pumping mud and cement from above into the blow-out preventers as early as sunday. today, the effort was postponed until possibly monday or tuesday because workers need to clean out debris they found in one of the relief wells being drilled. the debris is preventing a final section of pipe casing from being installed. that casing is essential for reinforcing the relief well and keeping it secure during the static kill. tom foreman has more for us tonight. tom? hey, randi. what they want to do is make sure that relief well is ready in case the static kill doesn t work. let s explain the static kill first. they ll pump fluid down into that blow-out preventer we ve heard so much about. this is like that top kill they tried before, down into the line. this fluid is much heavier than the oil and, in theory, it will exert downward pressure on the oil and ultimately stop it. they can do this because with that cap on top, the oil is now at a more constant