A new survey found that businesses in Sunset Park feel impacted by the fear of federal immigration enforcement in the mostly immigrant community. <\/p>\n
\u201cBusiness is down,\u201d said David Estrada, executive director of the Sunset Park BID. \u201cFoot traffic is reduced. People who are shopping are shopping just a little bit less.\u201d <\/p>\n
The study, which was recently discussed by the city council, showed that 80% of Sunset Park businesses that were surveyed said that they felt the impact of federal immigration enforcement. <\/p>\n
That was compared to 30% of businesses across the borough. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have a lot of problems with the immigration [enforcement], and a lot of people are scared,\u201d said Carolina, who manages a Guatemalan restaurant. <\/p>\n
She told News 12 that she lost about 40% of her business. <\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody doesn\u2019t want to go out,\u201d said Carolina. \u201cEverybody doesn\u2019t want to go to work.\u201d <\/p>\n
But Estrada said that one cannot pinpoint an exact percentage of how the fear of immigration enforcement plays a role, because there are other factors, including rising costs for mom-and-pop shops. <\/p>\n
\u201cOn a good day, [small businesses are] just barely making it,\u201d said Estrada. <\/p>\n
He added that neither consumers nor employers can live in fear. <\/p>\n
\u201cBe cautious and aware, stay well informed, be prepared, and go about your life because you can\u2019t stop living,\u201d said Estrada. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new survey found that businesses in Sunset Park feel impacted by the fear of federal immigration enforcement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-230864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}