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Thursday, September 03, 2026

Farmers Drove Away Their Immigrant Workforce. Now This Farmer Complains He Can't Fill Jobs, Even With Free Housing + $1.4K A Week

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Now the farmers who supported these deportation policies are discovering the consequences of their own choices. You don't get to build your business around immigrant labor, support policies that target and deport those workers, and then complain that "no one wants to work." You helped drive away your own workforce, this crisis didn't just happen to you; it came from the republicans you supported.

This is a Georgia farmer and agricultural YouTuber named Patrick Shivers. Here is his website MP Produce https://georgiagrown.com/

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Too ------- bad.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-09-03 11:12 AM | Reply

He should have planned his life better. I mean really, a lot better. Maybe should never have been a farmer at all. What Donald Trump calls a loser from start to finish.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-03 11:19 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You're telling me a farmer in Georgia had slaves, the civil war freed them, and now he can't find workers?

Why does this sound like post civil war propaganda?

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-03 11:37 AM | Reply

You're a ------- cartoon.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-09-03 11:48 AM | Reply

Republicans (all Americans) depended on the labor of undocumented immigrants.

It's sad republicans are also the ones who demonize immigrants.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-09-03 12:08 PM | Reply

He is at the "finding out" phase.

Wait, where are all the unemployed Americans rushing to fill these jobs?

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-09-03 12:43 PM | Reply

You cannot blame the farmers: the face-eating leopard said it would not eat their faces...

#7 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-09-03 02:21 PM | Reply

Related ...

As US agriculture wilts under financial pressure, former Arkansas farmer cultivates US Senate bid
www.reuters.com

... A decade ago, Hallie Shoffner quit a career in non-profits to help her aging parents run the family farm. For more than a century, their land had endured droughts and floods, booms and busts, the shift from traditional farming to the mechanized, high-tech planting of rice, soy and other commodities that now dominate American agriculture. ...

... then Pres Trump came along ...

... At first, Shoffner thrived, proud to continue tilling their fertile soil on the western fringe of the Mississippi Delta. Last year, however, she came to a difficult, if unavoidable conclusion: The business, beset by increasingly high costs and vanishing profit margins, could no longer survive. She sold machinery, tools " nearly everything but the land and homestead built by her great-granduncle in 1901. ...


#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-03 04:59 PM | Reply

What's wrong with his hands and back?

#9 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-09-04 06:20 AM | Reply

"If he hires an illegal immigrant, no one's gonna arrest him for it anyway!!!"

-Danforth

Sounds like this farmer is an ------- and a moron either way. If he hires immigrants, he's the entire problem. If he doesn't, his farm is ------. And I can see the outpouring of sympathy for him now ... ... ..

That's why I find this partisan bickering hilarious.

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 09:22 AM | Reply

White people won't pick fruit, not even for $15/hr. Not culturally capable of it anymore.

#11 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-04 09:41 AM | Reply

Black people won't pick fruit either, not even for $15/hr. Might have some deeper seated cultural issues on that one.

#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-04 09:42 AM | Reply

Not culturally capable of it anymore.

#11 | Posted by sitzkrieg

I volunteered to help on a farm for one day. The work was backbreaking and mind-numbing.

Just one day, and I'll never do it again. Anyone who thinks they can do better than that will.

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-04 09:45 AM | Reply

It's tough work, done at night because it's way too hot out. Don't get me wrong. Lots of white farmers... but fruit orchards are a completely different animal from having a few hundred acres of beans and corn. Georgia peaches are picked by hand.

#14 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-04 10:01 AM | Reply

"If he hires an illegal immigrant, no one's gonna arrest him for it anyway!!!"

First, I never said that, so the quotation marks are bogus.

Second, this is the point where I remind you: you've already admitted knowing exactly who and where the illegals work in your town, and admitted if you know, the Republican Sheriff ABSOLUTELY knows.

I've offered my theory on why this happens. No one has debunked the theory yet.

In fact ... You've proven my theory true.

#15 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 11:00 AM | Reply

" If he hires immigrants, he's the entire problem."

No, not the entire problem.

Just the central problem. You know ... Like all the experts already agree. So much so, the current administration took down the admission on their own website.

Meanwhile, your theory still rests on the concept they'd be coming here, even if no one gave them jobs.

#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 11:04 AM | Reply

-the Republican Sheriff ABSOLUTELY knows.

Do you realize there are democrats who win elections in this country?

I'm seriously wondering if you know that because you're acting as if they don't even exist as a party at any level in this country.

Can you confirm you understand that? Once you answer we can move on from there but it's essential I understand your level of comprehension first.

#17 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 11:05 AM | Reply

-Meanwhile, your theory still rests on the concept they'd be coming here, even if no one gave them jobs.

No, let's dispense with that now......that's not my theory. The jobs are the main reason.

#18 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 11:07 AM | Reply

"The jobs are the main reason."

Look out.

When I pointed out that fact, I got attacked from all sides.

#19 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 11:09 AM | Reply

" Do you realize there are democrats who win elections in this country?"

Not in the places with meatpacking plants.

And not in your town. You live in a Republican county, with a Republican sheriff.

#20 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 11:12 AM | Reply

" but it's essential I understand your level of comprehension first."

I've made my point abundantly clear. I've also said, at least a dozen times, that deporting an illegal merely hangs up a new "job opening" sign. Meanwhile, frog"marching the hirers, going up the ladder every time, would make a real impact.

Anyone actually wanting to get to the central problem, must attack the central problem.

But the fact of the matter is, Republicans want the issue for a wedge ... While refusing to actually attack the main cause.

Pretty basic concept, right?

Now explain YOUR level of comprehension.

#21 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 11:17 AM | Reply

20

So you're unaware that there are hundreds of thousands of illegals living and working in .......

NYC
DC
Philly
Seattle
LA
SF
SD
Chicago
Baltimore

Basically every major city in this country (not to mention any area that's within 50 miles of an ocean) with construction, hotels, resorts, lawn, landscaping.....no packing plants.

If you want to make an issue out of who Barney Fife votes for then let's make that the issue.......

I don't know if I can prove it but I would bet it's possible that more illegals work in BLUE area than Red areas.

So.....who convinced the liberal version of Barney Fife (yes, I know we should use Andy Taylor but you drug rural sheriffs into this) to ignore all the illegals working there right under their noses?

#22 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 11:18 AM | Reply

-But the fact of the matter is, Republicans want the issue for a wedge ... While refusing to actually attack the main cause.

The hypocrisy of the republican party has been massively conceded by me forever.

#23 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 11:20 AM | Reply

www.pewresearch.org

20 metro areas are home to six-in-ten unauthorized immigrants in U.S.

Packing plants?
Republican sherrifs?

#24 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 11:22 AM | Reply

-I've made my point abundantly clear

not yet you haven't.

we're about to learn your actual point.

#25 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 11:24 AM | Reply

" I would bet it's possible that more illegals work in BLUE area than Red areas."

And I would bet that the hirers are largely Republicans.

I mean, we're always told it's Republicans who own businesses, right?

#26 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 11:34 AM | Reply


Basically every major city in this country (not to mention any area that's within 50 miles of an ocean) with construction, hotels, resorts, lawn, landscaping.....no packing plants.

Basically if the position doesn't require certification it has an influx of illegal immigrants running it.

-But the fact of the matter is, Republicans want the issue for a wedge ... While refusing to actually attack the main cause.

Same with Democrats, I can't imagine how you think free healthcare, benefits and sanctuary isn't an incentive.

There have even been cases of people back in Mexico collecting benefits from CA.

-Meanwhile, your theory still rests on the concept they'd be coming here, even if no one gave them jobs.

They would and they did, moving in or living around legal immigrants.
They create their own economy within their Sanctuary, this is a known phenomenon. Its just gets larger and larger.

Its not the corporations/job shops employing 80%-90% of illegal immigrants, its typically immigrants from the same country, working jobs that are outside your 1099 system..

#27 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-04 11:37 AM | Reply

"Same with Democrats"

Sorry, wrong.

Dems were ready to sign the Langford Bill.

Trump unilaterally blew up the deal, specifically to keep it as a campaign issue.

Let me guess: you frequent "news" sites that don't believe you can handle the truth.

#28 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 11:41 AM | Reply

" They would and they did, moving in or living around legal immigrants."

Riiiiiight. And they did it with no hope of getting a job, ever. And if there were no jobs to be had, well ... that wouldn't deter ANYONE.

Sounds even dumber when I type it out.

#29 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 11:43 AM | Reply

Jeff your presence is requested here.

#30 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-09-04 11:44 AM | Reply

" working jobs that are outside your 1099 system.."

The IRS will tell you there is no such thing.

All the more reason to arrest the hirers, right?

And wouldn't you be deported, without citizenship, if your tax evasion ever came to light?

#31 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 11:46 AM | Reply

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