24 THE QUEENS COURIER • FEBRUARY 2, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM THE QUEENS editorial PUBLISHER & EDITOR CO-PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF VP, EVENTS, WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA ART DIRECTOR ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR ARTISTS SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS EVENTS COORDINATOR ASSISTANT TO PUBLISHER CLASSIFIED MANAGER CONTROLLER PRESIDENT & CEO VICE PRESIDENT VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH CHERYL GALLGHER RON TORINA, JONATHAN RODRIGUEZ EMILY DAVENPORT KATRINA MEDOFF, ANTHONY GIUDICE, ANGELA MATUA SUZANNE MONTEVERDI CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI JACLYN HERTLING DEBORAH CUSICK CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS Schneps Communications, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 718-224-5863 • Fax 718-224-5441 www.qns.com editorial e-mail: editorial@qns.com for advertising e-mail: ads@qns.com Entire Contents Copyright 2017 by The Queens Courier All letters sent to THE QUEENS COURIER should be brief and are subject to condensing. Writers should include a full address and home and offi ce telephone numbers, where available, as well as affi liation, indicating special interest. Anonymous letters are not printed. Name withheld on request. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, AS WELL AS OP-ED PIECES IN NO WAY REFLECT THE PAPER’S POSITION. No such ad or any part thereof may be reproduced without prior permission of THE QUEENS COURIER. The publishers will not be responsible for any error in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Errors must be reported to THE QUEENS COURIER within fi ve days of publication. Ad position cannot be guaranteed unless paid prior to publication. Schneps Communications assumes no liability for the content or reply to any ads. The advertiser assumes all liability for the content of and all replies. The advertiser agrees to hold THE QUEENS COURIER and its employees harmless from all cost, expenses, liabilities, and damages resulting from or caused by the publication or recording placed by the advertiser or any reply to any such advertisement. SUNSET IN GLENDALE // PHOTO BY DENNIS POPP Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! To submit them to us tag @queenscourier on Instagram, visit our Facebook page, tweet @QNS or email editorial@qns.com (subject: Queens Snaps). The golden door must remain open for all It’s comforting to know that the president of the United States has made bolstering national security a priority in the fi rst few days in offi ce, but his method of doing so is rather twisted and fl ies in the face of our nation’s core principles. Th e executive order President Donald Trump signed on Jan. 27 that prohibits individuals from certain Middle Eastern nations from entering the U.S. is a half-baked and dangerous scheme that has caused chaos at the nation’s international airports and unnecessary harm to those being detained by customs agents. Th is order was challenged in the courts immediately, and U.S. District Judge Donnelly ruled on Saturday night that the order could not be fully enforced pending further review. Despite the judge’s ruling, there were reports nationwide that customs agents are not abiding by it, and are still preventing individuals from the designated nations from entering our country. Queens, for its part, has not taken this lying down. Th ousands of people converged upon Kennedy Airport on Saturday aft ernoon and evening to protest this outrageous executive order. Two local lawmakers, state Senator Michael Gianaris and Congresswoman Grace Meng, are sponsoring legislation on the state and federal levels, respectively, aimed at preventing the Port Authority from having the resources needed to carry out Trump’s executive order. We have always been a nation, a state and a borough of immigrants, both legal and illegal. Th e vast majority of those who emigrated to our country, regardless of how they got here, have contributed their talents to our nation in an overwhelmingly positive way, incorporating themselves into society and making a better way of life for themselves and their families. Th roughout the years, our immigrants have made America great. If we are to continue to be a great nation, we will stop dictating our immigration policies out of fear and instead alter immigration from a position of strength — and the branches of our government must respect the checks and balances on each other. We call on the Trump administration to immediately direct all government agencies to abide by Judge Donnelly’s ruling, to rescind fully the executive order of Jan. 27 and to come up with a more eff ective way of vetting innocent persons arriving in the U.S. without detaining them for hours on end in handcuff s or sending them back to war-torn areas of the world from which they are escaping. We must never arbitrarily shut, as poet Emma Lazarus so eloquently described, “the golden door” that leads the world to our nation of peace and opportunity. STORY: Cops warn residents about car break-ins around Bayside, Douglaston & Little Neck SUMMARY: Police are advising residents not to leave valuables in their cars because break-ins are on the rise, particularly in Bayside, Douglaston and Little Neck. REACH: 12,053 (as of Jan. 30, 2017 )
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