.........  Fifth-generation dairy farmer Dustin Machia said Wednesday the arrests of eight farmworkers by Border Patrol agents on Monday in Berkshire sent shockwaves through Vermont's tightknit dairy farming community. The reason is simple: Vermont dairy farms can't survive without migrant workers.

"I'm very worried about it," Machia said of the arrests. "It's not sustainable to not have (migrant farmworkers). Farming would be very bleak and the cost would skyrocket in the grocery store, because you can't pay an American to do (this) job any more. Americans just don't want to do this job. Without the foreign labor, it's just not sustainable."      .......