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With today’s largely Hispanic work crews, finding a midlevel manager to lead the team is never easy.

The DREAM Act passed by the House of Representatives yesterday does not contain AgJOBS, which suggests passage of either is unlikely.

Every morning at 4, Jim and Greg Moes meet in their office at their dairy’s new milking center to plan the day’s activities. It’s quieter then, before feed wagons and skid steers and milk trucks roar through the operation.

Overshadowed by the health-care debate, high unemployment and a struggling economy, attempts to overhaul immigration and the guest-worker program have not gone far.

Employees might not be who they say they are.

Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested two dairy farm owners in Michigan Wednesday.