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BREWSTER, Wash. — The Obama administration has replaced immigration raids at factories and farms with a quieter enforcement strategy: sending federal agents to scour companies’ records for illegal immigrant workers.

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MarÃ*a Cervantes is a former Gebbers Farms employee.
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While the sweeps of the past commonly led to the deportation of such workers, the “silent raids,â€