12 FEBRUARY 2, 2017 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM EDITORIAL The golden door must remain open for all It’s comforting to know that the THE HOT TOPIC 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 ) COMMENTS: ESTABLISHED 1908 Co-Publishers VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA SCHNEPS Editor-in-Chief ROBERT POZARYCKI Classifi ed Manager DEBORAH CUSICK Assistant Classifi ed Manager MARLENE RUIZ Reporter ANTHONY GIUDICE © 2017 SCHNEPS NY MEDIA, LLC. General Publication Offi ce: 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 TELEPHONE: 1-718-821-7500/7501/7502/7503 FAX: 1-718-224-5441 E-MAIL: editorial@ridgewoodtimes.com WEB SITE: www.qns.com ON TWITTER @ridgewoodtimes PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY FOR 108 YEARS COMPOSITION RESPONSIBILITY: Accuracy in receiving ads over the telephone cannot be guaranteed. This newspaper is responsible for only one incorrect insertion and only for that portion of the ad in which the error appears. It is the responsibility of the advertiser to make sure copy does not contravene the Consumer Protection Law or any other requirement.TIMES NEWSWEEKLY Is Listed With The Standard Rate & Data And Is A Member Of The New York Press Association SNAPS SUNSET IN GLENDALE PHOTO BY DENNIS POPP Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! Submit them to us tag @queenscourier on Instagram, Facebook page, tweeting @QNS or by emailing editorial@qns.com (subject: Queens Snaps). 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. The 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. This 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. Thousands 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. The 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. Throughout 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 again arbitrarily shut, as poet Emma Lazarus so eloquently described, “the golden door” that leads the world to our nation of peace and opportunity.
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