Elginite and former U46 school board member Douglas Heaton asked for a simple explanation of what Elgin police are doing locally to enforce immigration laws. He was met with silence, at least until newspaper articles about his frustration at the lack of response were published. One would think that a city council that hurried along a proposed ordinance seeking acceptance of a Matricula card as a valid form of identification locally would at least treat a request from one of its citizens with the same dispatch. Heaton got his response, and although it was not what he had hoped for,...