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Article: India takes steps to expel illegal Muslim immigrants; Anti-Muslim sentiment has grown in the country's east against Bangladeshis who come to India for work.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 4, 2003
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Byline: Amol Sharma Special to The Christian Science Monitor
Calcutta, India - Mihir Kumar Basu hires construction workers for a low-cost housing project on Calcutta's east side. To find cheap labor, Mr. Basu travels about 60 miles northeast of the city to the villages and towns along India's border with Bangladesh. There, illegal Bangladeshi immigrants line up for the chance to make a few dollars a day at his site.
"A lot of the people who work here have come to India illegally, many of them within the past few years," Basu says. "They don't have proper documentation to be in this country, so they're very scared to talk about it."
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