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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

"And I would bet that the hirers are largely Republicans.
I mean, we're always told it's Republicans who own businesses, right?"

I'll bring you back to my original question here........do you understand democrats win elections in this country or not?

who hires the law enforcement?

Does does it matter what political affiliation the law enforcement is or not?

we can concede the employers are republicans but you're making it all about the local sheriff.........you've only done it a million times here.

so does it matter or not.

#32 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 11:52 AM | Reply

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

are you challenging that? why put a question mark at the end.

either say that's the case or not.

#33 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 11:54 AM | Reply

All this whining about immigrants, who have been a net economic plus in this country for decades and commit fewer crimes per capita than do citizens, is coming from people easily manipulated into fear by politicians who know that dividing people is the only way they can win.

Posters who support this division have their heads too far up their arses to smell their own fear.

#34 | Posted by Corky at 2026-09-04 11:59 AM | Reply

".do you understand democrats win elections in this country or not?"

Of course.

And I realize immigrants are everywhere.

"we can concede the employers are republicans but you're making it all about the local sheriff"

No, I'm not. I'm also making it about hirers, and landlords, and insurers, and folks who casually look the other way while paying their lawn guys in cash.

Let me boil this down again: deporting an illegal worker simply puts up a "NEW JOB OPENING!" sign.

Anyone who claims they want to attack the problem, and doesn't do it by arresting hirers...

...doesn't really want to attack the problem.

Hell, it took over 24 hours for you to admit THE ROOT.

#35 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 12:00 PM | Reply

"either say that's the case or not."

My apologies; I was assuming some basic level of comprehension from you.

#36 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 12:01 PM | Reply

Corporations/Small business's are not hiring illegal immigrants without work authorization en mass, meaning the US laws have allowed the illegal border crosser to apply for asylum and receive work authorization, and legally get hired, which the employer can never ask about again. The E-Verify poster in your office will make this clear.

You can't run around claiming the system is locked down with IRS forms, that nothing illegal can happen, or found out.
And then claim corporations are paying illegal immigrants under the table.

#37 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-04 12:03 PM | Reply

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

You really want that the be the case, because it's all you have left to argue with.

#38 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-04 12:03 PM | Reply

" You really want that the be the case, because it's all you have left to argue with."

So you're going to argue the opposite point?!?

Go right ahead, dumfuq.

#39 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 12:08 PM | Reply

" You can't run around claiming the system is locked down with IRS form"

I'm not about to do that. All I'm doing is claiming that you're breaking a law. And doing it knowing you're breaking the law.

Your response seems to be "they can't find me".

Even if they don't "find you", that doesn't mean you're not breaking the law.

#40 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 12:11 PM | Reply

Even if they don't "find you", that doesn't mean you're not breaking the law.

#40 | POSTED BY DANFORTH

While ICE doesn't offer bounties (yet) bounty hunters get lucrative government contracts and can and do profit from picking up immigrants that break the law and I bet they would be very interested.

I hear they do sometimes informally pay informants for tips.

#41 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-04 12:33 PM | Reply

-No, I'm not.

Sorry. You're making it all about the political affiliation of that sheriff.

#42 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 12:38 PM | Reply

-I'm also making it about hirers, and landlords, and insurers, and folks who casually look the other way while paying their lawn guys in cash.

But not where most illegal immigrants actually are.

How do you reconcile that?

#43 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 12:40 PM | Reply

-doesn't really want to attack the problem.

And that's a problem only where there are fewer illegal immigrants and not where most are?

It's only a problem where republicans win elections and NOT where democrats win elections? You know ... ..where MOST ILLEGALS ARE BEING HIRED?

#44 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 12:44 PM | Reply

"You're making it all about the political affiliation of that sheriff."

It could be the Chambers of Commerce. In your county, for example, there's A REASON the Sheriff doesn't constantly bust the known hirers. I may not know what EXACTLY that is, but there has to be a reason. I've got a few good guesses, and they all involve money.

But ultimately, you're also missing the larger point: I'm not against the immigrants, I'm not even against the hirers, in the big picture. I'm against the hypocrisy. Folks pretend they want to address the illegal immigration issue, but then NEVER start frog - marching the hirers.

Frankly, I think the good, honest workers should have some path to staying in America. Instead, we've got screechers and slurpers, unwilling to address the root, complaining about immigrants who never affected them at all.

#45 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 01:00 PM | Reply

-But ultimately, you're also missing the larger point:

It's not a larger point. Is merely your point.

You're getting much closer to admitting what this is really about to you.

You've discovered it might be about money?

LOL

#46 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 01:03 PM | Reply

Sorry. You're making it all about the political affiliation of that sheriff.

#42 | Posted by eberly

How many Democrat Sheriffs do you think exist in rural Georgia?

#47 | Posted by morris at 2026-09-04 01:11 PM | Reply

Is there a county or local public entity who is doing what you want? To perp walk employers off to jail?

Anywhere?

You understand why I'm asking, right?

#48 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 01:12 PM | Reply

-How many Democrat Sheriffs do you think exist in rural Georgia?

How many Republican sheriffs exist in the 20 largest metro areas? Where there are the most illegals

#49 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 01:15 PM | Reply

Eberly, you're a tiresome troll.

Crawl back under the cowpie you emerged from.

You don't argue about facts and issues,you troll about petty personalities.

Like Trump actually.

Everything is personal and petty with you.

Making your "point" is all you consider.

Are you sure you're not Really a Big Magat?

You act exactly like one.

#50 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-09-04 01:16 PM | Reply

" Anywhere?"

No.

"You understand why I'm asking, right?"

You understand why the answer is "no", right?

#51 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 01:24 PM | Reply

-I'm also making it about hirers, and landlords, and insurers, and folks who casually look the other way while paying their lawn guys in cash.

Of course you are because you don't see the issues with the policies you support.

For instance, no one pays CASH, I give him a check which the system has enabled gladly accepts, and State Democrats in CA defend.

If the GOV is going to allow illegal immigrants to run around the county without caring, and infact giving them benefits.
Why shouldn't the people make use of the slave labor?

Blaming people for using a cheap labor is ridiculous when the government itself is giving the same cheap labor FREE healthcare.

#52 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-04 01:25 PM | Reply

" You're getting much closer to admitting what this is really about to you."

Which is what?

#53 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 01:25 PM | Reply

How many Republican sheriffs exist in the 20 largest metro areas? Where there are the most illegals

Does it matter if the metro areas are sanctuary? The police departments in these metro areas are neutered.

#54 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-04 01:25 PM | Reply

"For instance, no one pays CASH, I give him a check which the system has enabled gladly accepts"

Your answer remains to break the law. And your justification remains others do it.

#55 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 01:27 PM | Reply

"Why shouldn't the people make use of the slave labor?"

Ahhh. We've gotten to the central issue.

#56 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 01:28 PM | Reply

Repeatedly (like a thousand times) you've used the same scenario.

Rural area
Meat packing plant
Republican law enforcement
Republican chamber of commerce.

And that all's true.

But it's the only scenario you choose to use.

And yet most illegals live in 20 blue cities.

You either didn't know that or you don't care.

Which is it?

It's not just about republican hypocrisy, obviously.

#57 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-04 01:33 PM | Reply

"Can Undocumented Immigrants Get Federal Government Health Insurance?

No, they cannot, and that's been the case for decades. Under a 1996 law, undocumented immigrants are not eligible to enroll in health insurance programs that are run by or paid for by the federal government.

Even before 1996, undocumented immigrants had very limited access to health care, but the restrictions were created program by program."

www.nilc.org

1Nut... still the Perfect Reverse Barometer.

#58 | Posted by Corky at 2026-09-04 01:36 PM | Reply

" And yet most illegals live in 20 blue cities."

And you are assuming none of them cross into a different county to work. None.

#59 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 01:40 PM | Reply

"It's not just about republican hypocrisy, obviously."

Not exclusively, no. But Dems aren't the ones trying to kidnap and deport.

#60 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-09-04 01:43 PM | Reply

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