"Northeast migrant workers flee Bengaluru plantations," 10 December 2017

...[R]ecent[ly], some legislators had objected to large scale infiltration of Bangladeshis into the state. Home minister...asked...all districts to identity undocumented immigrants working in plantations, hotels and quarries, among other places, and initiate action against them. Right-wing activists also alleged that Bangladeshis were part of the unregulated workers who infiltrated through the borders...

 [Karnataka] state's economy, reliant on migrant labour, has gone into a tailspin after...[60000] workers from northeastern states fled Karnataka. The government had recently passed a decree asking plantation and hotel owners not to hire illegal migrants for work...