An Empty Shop

Read Finkel and N.C. Aizenman from a few days ago: On most days, Mohammed Butt and his older brother, Imran, can be found in an office decorated with photographs of their family back in Pakistan. A dozen years after entering the U.S. on tourist visas, both are permanent U.S. residents who share a four-bedroom house in Northern Virginia and co-own a business that is utterly dependent on Latino workers.

Every one of the six mechanics they employ is a Latino, and as all six made plans last week to go to the rally and shut down the business for at least part of the day, the two brothers sat in the office, bewildered.

"I don't understand why they are doing this," Imran said. "I swear I don't."