Posted on 08/14/2005 8:40:08 AM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
NEW YORK -- Business in his modest grocery store in Brooklyn's Little Pakistan has gone down so much that Shafiq Ul Hassan has started stocking what he calls ''American foods" in a desperate attempt to attract different customers. Across from the baby goat meat and the pungent ingredients for curry powder, the immigrant shopkeeper has placed candy bars and loaves of white bread.
''You see how empty the store is. This would normally be packed with Pakistani people," Hassan said, sighing. ''A lot of people have left. Most have gone back home or another state. You just don't see people anymore."
Many of Hassan's Pakistani customers, and possibly 20 percent or more of the neighborhood's residents, have disappeared as a result of a crackdown on undocumented immigrants that the federal government has waged since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Immigration specialists and residents of Little Pakistan, part of the Midwood section of Brooklyn, say the devastating impact the operations have had on this tiny swath of Brooklyn to some extent mirrors the effect on other Muslim or Arab communities across the nation.
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''It's quieter. People stay in. . . . Everyone is scared," said Shahid Ali Khan, who was arrested in May and held in a detention center in Elizabeth, N.J., for five days until he received a temporary reprieve. Now, he worries about his wife and 10-year-old son, both of whom recently received deportation orders.
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Cue violins....
Tell Haji to go back to Pakistan..
GOOD BYE ACHMED
Here's a quarter. Call someone who cares.
Brooklyn has a Little Pakistan? Who knew?
KEWL!
If that sounds either harsh or unfeeling, remember what all other nations except the USA and a few socialism impaired nations can remember.
Man is a territorial organism. The territory is restricted to the members of the "in group".
Islam, and Korna, make it clear that no group except "believers" is acceptable under Islam. This makes them unable to live in any society not under sharia law.
Summary: Send 'em all back, 'cause Islam is antithetical to the American Republic.
cry me a river so we can all go swimmin
I guess this may all be true, but when I drive down Coney Island Avenue, it still looks pretty busy to me. Some restaurants now have signs in English as well as urdu (or whatever language is spoken by Pakistanis). My favorite is the Afghanistan Resaurant -- "A Place for the Whole Family."
Burgerz! Cheeps! Pepzi!
I thought all the middle eastern stuff was on Atlantic Avenue...
Excellent news. So far so good...
What you're saying is that it's working ...
... possibly 20 percent or more of the neighborhood's residents, have disappeared as a result of a crackdown on undocumented immigrants that the federal government has waged since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
It's a good start, but we can do better.
By the way, how many people in a "possibly"? [Weasel Word alert!]
the devastating impact ... to some extent mirrors the effect on other Muslim or Arab communities across the nation.
So sanity is contagious?
By the way, what exactly does "to some extent" mean? [Weasel Clause alert!]
now if they would just start doing this with the illegal hispanics, we could get this country back on track.
We need a deportation tsunami...
Right next door to little Afghanistan and little India and cross town from Chinatown and little Italy. All part of the assimilation phenomena.
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