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STORY: Family-owned MovieWorld theater in Douglaston will
screen its last fi lms this July
SUMMARY: MovieWorld, which is located within the
Douglaston Plaza shopping center, is projected to screen its
last picture show on July 2.
REACH: 33,914 people (as of 6/18/18)
Hold Trump & ICE accountable
In their ongoing eff ort to allegedly make this country “great again,” the Trump
administration commenced a “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration — one that
split families apart from sea to shining sea.
Th is administration has taken off the streets thousands of undocumented people,
including a pizza deliveryman who worked in College Point and a Flushing father.
Both men had outstanding deportation orders against them that went unenforced for a
decade or longer, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Neither man had a violent criminal record, but that didn’t matter to ICE. Th ey do not
discriminate between them, convicted criminals or children. If you’re here illegally and
they catch you, they will take you away.
Some folks might blindly applaud that, but they, like Trump, fail to grasp the impact
of this zero tolerance policy.
Both local men seized by ICE had married citizens of this country and were issued
green cards, despite the outstanding orders. Th ey had children as well. Th ey stayed out
of legal trouble and led normal lives until ICE got them.
Meanwhile, ICE — at Trump’s direction — separated more than 2,000 children from
their parents aft er illegally crossing the U.S./Mexico border together. Th e kids are being
kept in facilities within cages, treated like prisoners of crimes they did not commit.
Some parents reportedly had their kids taken from them by agents who falsely promised
them that they were taking their children off to a bath, never to see them again.
Th e trauma being infl icted, to parents and children alike, is incalculable. Who will be
held accountable for this?
Clearly, the Trump administration and their supporters could care less about psychological
trauma infl icted upon strangers. As they see it, the rule of law must come fi rst,
except of course when it endangers Trump himself (see the ongoing Mueller investigation).
Now, as this paper went to press, Trump signed an executive order to end the separation
of parents; families will instead be detained together. He can change his policy,
but he cannot undo all the harm his administration has already brought to the aff ected
immigrants, who are people.
Let us repeat that: Immigrants, regardless of their situation, are people. Upholding
and respecting their human rights is not a liberal virtue; it is an American one.
We as a nation must not remain silent on this now that Trump is changing his tune.
We must keep up our voices to ensure that the government adopts common-sense
and respectful immigration reform and holds this administration accountable for its
actions.
We urge all of our readers to call their local Members of Congress and demand that
they support a full investigation into this humanitarian crisis, and pass real immigration
reform that upholds the law without tearing families apart.
Publisher & E ditor Victoria Schneps-Yunis
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Assistant to Publisher Deborah Cusick
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