Assistant photo editor Rick Quinn has this wonderful ability to grimace at us when we hand over a photo assignment asking for a picture of something that isn't there. We do this a lot to our photographers. We're asking for photos to go with stories we're writing about things that are coming up in the future; or things that have already happened.

We're doing it again Sunday, with a fascinating story by reporter Tom Kisken. He took on the assignment of what would happen in Ventura County if Congress succeeded in removing all illegal immigrants.

Tom tries to weed through the hyperbole and rhetoric to give as accurate picture as we can paint about the impacts of illegal immigration on the county, both negative and positive. It really is an interesting read.

And our crack photo staff did a good job of giving us an image of something that doesn't exist.

I'll be on Page One on Sunday.