E-Mail 'N Run
I love people who write me and tell me I can't write back. Perhaps some of you care to respond in my place, since our little coward here says my e-mail address is blocked:

In a message dated 4/29/08 10:50:27 PM, bbsoldado@riseup.net writes:

I think it would be a good idea to fully read something before making a comment about it. I am talking about your comment on the Special Order 40. The people being protected from this are the "victims" not the criminals. As I read the rest of the comments I realized there was many people like you who just want a little bit of attention and want to put their two cents. Stick to your childish blog and leave politics to other people.

PS. Don't bother writing back I already blocked you re e-mail. By the way did you know that the majority of crimes in the US are white on white? of course you didn't TV has you asleep.

The problem is, few cops understand Special Order 40, and don't ask or do anything about a criminal's illegal status, which is why I gave the following quote (in 40 words or less, per the LA Times' requirements for their piece on the topic):

If I want a job cleaning your company's toilets, I'll have to present proof of citizenship and swear under penalty of perjury I'm legal, but if I mug you, beat you, and leave you for dead, it's no questions asked?

--Amy Alkon, syndicated columnist, advicegoddess.com

An excerpt from my blog item on this, "A Lot Of Especially Confused Police Officers":

I've talked to cops about this, including an FBI agent I met recently, and the way this plays out in real life is that police officers don't ask criminals about their immigration status.

Immigration status should not just be gingerly inquired about but rigorously checked upon arrest. And, in fact, I'd like to see all our immigration laws rigorously enforced. Am I willing to pay more for a head of lettuce? Even dollars more? Sure I am. And more for a carwash, too. Especially now, with the danger from terrorism, it's especially stupid for us to have porous borders and barely enforced immigration laws.

My pal Heather MacDonald, a Manhattan Institute fellow, testified before the House on "sanctuary laws" like Special Order 40, which she calls "a serious impediment to stemming gang violence and other crime" and "a perfect symbol of this country's topsy-turvy stance towards illegal immigration."

Plus, we're paying to keep these people in jail instead of dumping them over the border where they belong.

Here's a link to the actual, printed Special Order 40. I actually linked it in the blog item I've excerpted above, but, apparently, magically, without reading it as I did it!