According to Newsday (NY), the federal authorities have been targeting the 'Little Pakistan' section of Brooklyn in an attempt to round up suspicious individuals and those violating immigration laws. The article notes that as a result of this unwanted attention, many Pakistanis who did not get picked up by authorities have left the area - to other areas of the U.S., to Canada, and even back to the homeland.

As a result, 'Little Pakistan' has been functionally gutted. Grocery store owner Pervaiz Saleem says, "it's dead here.... My customers, so many of them did get interrogated, were deported or just fled. People disappeared."

Another man noted, "Women and girls in particular, given their mode of dress -- their head scarves, for example -- tell me that they feel they would be the first to be singled out for a hate crime or a deportation-type arrest. Some are actually afraid to go outside right now."

As an indication of how little things have changed since 9/11, a man admits to showing large American flags on the Fourth of July: "If we have to prove our patriotism, so be it -- we will."