Immigration Officials Investigating Vt. Dairy Farms
Published: Nov 20, 2009 8:25 am By: John Dillon - Vermont Public Radio"Federal immigration officials are investigating whether Vermont dairy farmers are employing illegal foreign workers.
Many Vermont dairy farms hire Mexican farmworkers to help with milking and other chores.
Farmers have acknowledged in the past that some of the workers are undocumented - or have entered the country illegally.
Kelly Loftus is a spokesman for the Vermont Agency of Agriculture. She said that federal agents began arriving at farms this week.
Loftus says she knows of at least four farmers who have been contacted by immigration officials so far."
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