Texas farmers CRISIS Is SHOCKING After Loosing 100% Of Their Workforce

Added: 2026-06-02

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[00:00:15]Multiple Texas farms shut down after almost 100% of workforce vanishes overnight.

[00:00:22]>> [music] >> In a stunningly swift overnight change, some Texas farm operations had to shut down after losing virtually all of their workforce. [music] An exodus triggered by the increase in immigration raids and increased enforcement. The ripple effects of these raids are the gift that keeps on giving and will be felt nationwide.

[00:00:41]Unpicked crops are now left unharvested.

[00:00:44]>> [music] >> Livestock were left untended and rural economies are on edge.

[00:00:51]>> [music] >> The story isn't a tale of woe for Texas farms. It's a warning for American agribusiness, [music] food prices, and communities that keep food on our plates.

[00:01:02]I need you to share this. Right, farmers in Texas are crying for help because they don't have workers in their farms.

[00:01:11]Majority of people who work in their farms are immigrants. And guess what?

[00:01:16]They voted for Trump even after hearing Trump going around say he's going to deport majority of immigrants in America. This is whom they voted for.

[00:01:28]So, when I see them crying and asking for help and what they are going to do, they are losing their money, they are going to be bankrupt, I wonder why?

[00:01:36]Because that is the person they voted for. I've put more clips so that you can watch. I'd like to give credit to the original creators of these clips. Later, I'll be back for commentary.

[00:01:47]This is breaking news. Texas farmers are sounding the alarm on this tariff war.

[00:01:54]And in more breaking news, nobody cares.

[00:01:58]Yeah, I don't know if it's just me or maybe it's some of you, too, but as far as farmers sending sounding the alarm, I don't care.

[00:02:07]I I have to admit, I don't care at all because the last time Donald Trump was president, 100,000 farmers across the country lost their farms. Yeah. So, overwhelmingly, farmers voted for this man again, knowing full well of his history the last time he was president. So, from me to you, farmers, I don't care.

[00:02:38]I don't care how bad things get for you.

[00:02:41]I don't care if you lose your farm. I don't care if you I don't care.

[00:02:46]At least I don't care to hear about it.

[00:02:48]I really don't because this is exactly what you voted for. And you're going to get what you voted for. You're going to get four more years of Donald Trump not giving a damn about farmers whatsoever. [music] So, enjoy.

[00:03:07]down on illegal immigration is starting to affect the Texas agriculture industry. Some farmers say their workers are too scared to show up for work. Fox News Casey Stegall spoke with the Texas agriculture commissioner about the recent immigration raids. Casey.

[00:03:22]Hey Steve, good to see you. The state Republican agriculture commissioner tells me that the stepped-up immigration enforcement is taking a toll on the industry, not just here in Texas, but beyond. While federal immigration authorities say they're only doing their jobs.

[00:03:40]Just 40 miles or so south of the Dallas hustle and bustle, row crops, hay production, sits Lee Calvert's 2,000-acre Ellis County family farm. My father helps me, obviously. My little sister helps, my wife a huge help. I've got three sons and they're coming along and doing what they can. Calvert knows he's lucky not having to rely on farm hands to check the chores off because those who do say absenteeism among hired migrant help has disrupted their entire operations.

[00:04:14]So, Texas farms don't have no workers?

[00:04:21]I like salad, y'all. I mean, what we going to do?

[00:04:24]I'm not going out there.

[00:04:26]Y'all should have left them folks alone.

[00:04:29]Now look at us. We going to We already overweight, out of shape, high blood pressure. Now we ain't got no vegetables.

[00:04:37]I am just waiting on Magda report to the fields.

[00:04:41]It's your turn. They hear that ICE is coming or that they see somebody minus roll up uh well, they just don't show up. They're scared to come to work.

[00:04:50]>> Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller tells Fox 4 dairy farmers have been hit the hardest. But on a dairy, those cows, they never stay milked.

[00:05:00]You milk them three times in a 24-hour period. So, if the crew doesn't show up, these dairymen go into panic mode.

[00:05:11]Recent video posted to immigration rights groups social media channels shows federal agents conducting raids on California farms. President Trump in the last week briefly paused this type of enforcement within a handful of economic sectors which rely heavily on migrant labor like agriculture. Then it was back to business. We're enforcing everywhere.

[00:05:34]In other words, the president has said if you are an illegal immigrant into this country, you ought to voluntarily go back and come through the proper channels.

[00:05:42]>> But folks like Lee Calvert agree there's no place in America for migrants with violent criminal backgrounds, but wishes there was more gray area. And I think there needs to be a distinction made in a in a pathway for the people that do want to come here, obey our laws, integrate in our societies, work in our factories, fields, wherever.

[00:06:05]So, the US Department of Agriculture estimates that more than 40% of the nation's farm workers are undocumented.

[00:06:13]Um you can't just say, "Hey, I'm going to get rid of these people." and then look at the farmers that are left without workers.

[00:06:18]So, first immigrants are taking your jobs. Now they're not there to work for you. Pick a [ __ ] struggle because you can't have both.

[00:06:28]It's still from Georgia, so this is uh news out of Texas. But folks, these are alarm bells ringing for the entire United States.

[00:06:37]And our government is not listening.

[00:06:40]Uh overnight, multiple farms in the state of Texas completely shut down.

[00:06:46]And the reason for this shutdown was because they have lost almost 100% of their workforce.

[00:06:56]Now, we know this this is the result of the immigration rates and stricter enforcement, but the ripple effect is going to be felt all the way across this country.

[00:07:08]Now, you've got crops that are rotting in the fields.

[00:07:14]You have livestock that is not being uh attended to at all. And that takes a lot of personnel.

[00:07:21]And we're talking So, now we're getting every area of food to include meat.

[00:07:25]And the communities that surround these farms, those businesses and those people who depend on the income from these farms, it's creating disasters for small communities in Texas.

[00:07:38]Now, this is not stopping at Texas farms.

[00:07:41]This is going to end up all the way across America.

[00:07:46]Especially in the breadbasket, the middle of the nation cuz they have tons of immigrant help.

[00:07:52]But folks, the alarm bells are ringing.

[00:07:55]Your food on your plate is being affected.

[00:08:00]So you got to think about it.

[00:08:02]It won't be soon until either prices go ridiculously high or you just won't have any food to buy.

[00:08:13]Next up on the FAFO tour, Texas farmers.

[00:08:19]One day these farms in Texas had hundreds of workers tending the fields and the livestock, and the very next day all of those workers are gone.

[00:08:31]That's what is happening in Texas.

[00:08:33]And entire fields of crops are being left to rot because there's no one to pick them.

[00:08:39]Livestock, like dairy cows that have to be milked twice a day when they're lactating, there's no one to tend to them.

[00:08:49]These farms are going to go under.

[00:08:53]And it's not going to just affect Texas farmers. This is going to affect the breadbasket of the nation very soon.

[00:09:03]Most of these farmers voted for the felon in chief.

[00:09:08]And now they are reaping what they have sown, quite literally.

[00:09:15]Is America great yet?

[00:09:19]And all of these red-faced conservative MAGA folk who have complained for years about these illegal immigrants are taking our jobs. It's funny, they're not lining up to go work out in these fields for that low pay out in the hot sun. And what's unspoken is many of these farmers and many of these racist thought that we black Americans were going to rush out there because they have come to believe their own racist stereotypes and lies about black people.

[00:09:53]And they did. They thought we were going to line up to go work in those fields.

[00:09:58]Haha, tricks are for kids. Our ancestors already been there and done that and they were not paid at all. They were forced to work in fields, whipped, and tortured.

[00:10:12]This is a new day.

[00:10:15]And so I suggest everyone who has ever complained about illegal immigrants taking our jobs, you get you some 100 SPF sunscreen and get your ass out there in the fields if you want produce, period, in your grocery stores.

[00:10:33]And think about this. This is going to have a ripple effect. Think about all the businesses that are vendors and customers of these farms.

[00:10:42]There's no one to buy fertilizer, farm implements, pesticides.

[00:10:48]Many restaurants that are farm-to-table, where are they going to get their meat and their produce?

[00:10:55]Racism is expensive. And it is going to be the ruin of this nation.

[00:11:02]It's already playing out.

[00:11:04]So again, I ask, MAGA, are we great again yet?

[00:11:09]And when are y'all going to go out to Texas and all these other areas that need work and start working the fields since you're a patriotic American?

[00:11:19]I'm waiting to see when that's going to happen. But I'm not going to hold my breath. With every Republican you know.

[00:11:27]And you don't need even need to wait for their response. They just need to know what's happening. And this is part of my line of work. I deal with commercial farmers including these small farmers as clients and I cannot tell you how this is the beginning of the complete collapse of our economy under this project 2025 administration that doesn't know what they're doing.

[00:11:51]You talk about the immediate shuttering of farms because this is actually what's happening.

[00:11:58]With the food, with the harvest that are lying there completely rotting.

[00:12:04]That is a loss of food to local food distributors, local grocery stores, [music] local restaurants, hospitals. They sell their harvest, all sorts of vegetables to businesses within the state of Texas.

[00:12:23]This is where you can go into your local grocery store [music] and now you're going to see hardly any vegetables or fruit depending on what they're growing or shortage of meat.

[00:12:36]This is what's going to happen.

[00:12:38]Now all of the other industries that support farming you've got local pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer suppliers that are [music] just their sales are going to plummet.

[00:12:53]These farmers are going to be purchasing that.

[00:12:56]You've got H-2A workers who are now gone, migrant who are now gone.

[00:13:02]They were paying taxes even if they didn't have social security numbers, they were given tax numbers, [music] tax ID numbers.

[00:13:12]So now you got millions of dollars just poof, gone overnight from these Texas communities.

[00:13:21]You've got trucking companies that are hired to haul the produce from the farms to the packaging plants. You've got packaging plants who wash the vegetables, grade the vegetables, pack the vegetables, whose sales are going to plummet.

[00:13:41]Now you're going to have other industries who don't employ either migrant workers or H-2A workers who are going to have to have >> [music] >> layoffs. This is all under Republican leadership, not just from the White House, but from the Republicans that were elected in the state of Texas. And if you think this is going to stop at Texas, you've got another thing coming.

[00:14:04]And you want to know which farms are going to be impacted further down the road, they're going to be safe for now.

[00:14:13]There is a small percentage of farmers who are actually Democrats.

[00:14:20]And they understand how important it is to protect their employees, take care of their employees. Those employees who feel safe will keep showing up for work because they know the owners have their backs, which says something about these other farms where the employees are like, "I'm too scared to show up." Let me add this final thing.

[00:14:45]This is going to impact farmers that are risk of going out of business. Who's going to jump in?

[00:14:52]The federal government to compensate them with our tax dollars. So now our tax dollars is going to be used to cover the [ __ ] leadership of this administration on top of the overwhelming increasing tax dollars being used by this administration to scare, to deport, to imprison people with brown skin. Like our tax dollars are not helping everyday Americans at all. And this is just the beginning. And now on illegal immigration is starting to affect the Texas agriculture industry. Some farmers say their workers are too scared to show up for work. Fox 4's Casey Stegall spoke with the Texas agriculture commissioner about the recent immigration raids.

[00:15:36]Casey.

[00:15:38]Hey Steve, good to see you. The state Republican agriculture commissioner tells me that the stepped up immigration enforcement is taking a toll on the industry, not just here in Texas, but beyond. While federal immigration authorities say they're only doing their jobs.

[00:15:57]Just 40 miles or so south of the Dallas hustle and bustle, row crops, hay production, sits Lee Calvert's 2,000-acre Ellis County family farm. My father helps me, obviously. My little sister helps. My wife, huge help. I've got three sons. And they're coming along and doing what they can. Calvert knows he's lucky not having to rely on farm hands to check the chores off because those who do say absenteeism among hired migrant help has disrupted their entire operations. They hear that ICE is coming or that they see somebody buying us roll up, uh well, they just don't show up.

[00:16:37]They're scared to come to work.

[00:16:38]>> Texas agriculture commissioner Sid Miller tells Fox 4 dairy farmers have been hit the hardest. But on a dairy, those cows, they never stay milked.

[00:16:48]You milk them three times in a 24-hour period. So, if the crew doesn't show up, these dairymen go into panic mode.

[00:16:59]Recent video posted to immigration rights groups' social media channels shows federal agents conducting raids on California farms. President Trump in the last week briefly paused this type of enforcement within a handful of economic sectors which rely heavily on migrant labor, like agriculture, then it was back to business. We're enforcing everywhere. In other words, the president has said if you are an illegal immigrant into this country, you ought to voluntarily go back and come through the proper channels.

[00:17:30]>> Folks like Lee Calvert agree there's no place in America for migrants with violent criminal backgrounds, but wishes there was more gray area. I think there needs to be a distinction made in a in a pathway for the people that do want to come here, obey our laws, integrate into our societies, work in our factories, fields, wherever.

[00:17:53]So, the US Department of Agriculture estimates that more than 40% of the nation's farm workers are undocumented.

[00:18:01]>> You want to get rid of illegal immigrants, quit eating.

[00:18:04]And that's for everybody. That's, you know, nation wide. If you want to get rid of them, quit eating.

[00:18:09]That'll solve the problem. But when only five pickers showed up this morning to harvest his sweet potatoes, farmer Keith Smith saw possible ruin, the loss of his half million dollar crop. I run this gear because of this new law.

[00:18:22]And you're in trouble? I'm in trouble, bad trouble. Smith's 200 acres need 20 pickers, mostly Mexican nationals. There is not enough documented people here to supply that workforce.

[00:18:35]Most of your workers are here illegally.

[00:18:38]That's true. If they got documentation, they got a better job working for me.

[00:18:43]Fernando Aldaman, a Mexican national, has worked Smith's farm since 1992.

[00:18:48]Everybody's just scared.

[00:18:50]>> Yeah. Now, are you here legally?

[00:18:53]No. No. So, are you scared? Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared, you know.

[00:18:57]Smith's pickers make about $100 a day.

[00:19:00]He supports immigration laws, just not this one that threatens his third generation fam- Did y'all see that farmer that voted for Trump that's now about to lose his farm because of Trump, even though Kamala was the one who passed the bill to give him the money that he needed for his farm in the first place. Now, he going on Tik Tok begging for us to help him keep his farm, and he going to say, "Oh, it's not supposed to be an us versus us. It's supposed to be us versus them."

[00:19:25]Us?

[00:19:27]Us?

[00:19:28]Then he going to say, "Oh, it's corrupted on both sides of the aisle.

[00:19:31]It's It's all about money." So, you thought.

[00:19:35]The felon who was impeached was in the pockets of billionaires, had dozens of cases out against him. You thought he was the less corrupt option to go with over the woman who worked in all three branches of the government, spent her entire life being a civil servant, and passed the specific bill that gave you the loan that you needed for your farm.

[00:20:05]That the administration you voted for has just signed an executive order to undo. Oh. All I have for you, sir, are concepts of sympathy. I have concepts of thoughts and prayers. Do I have them actually? No.

[00:20:23]I won't be holding up the prayer line for you.

[00:20:26]Why would I do that?

[00:20:28]No, I'm not helping. No. And what's so funny is there's probably a bunch of farmers that voted for Trump that are now about to lose their farms because of him. Y'all thought he cared about y'all just because y'all share the same He don't. Cuz not only do you have to be whitey for him to actually give a [ __ ] about you, you also have to be rich.

[00:20:49]about to shut their doors because their workforce virtually disappeared over I hate being right all the goddamn time.

[00:20:58]I'm You know, I'm really getting tired of being right all the goddamn time.

[00:21:04]As soon as they started expanding ICE, I said, "These people are getting ready to [ __ ] themselves in the worst way possible and they have no idea why."

[00:21:14]The first thing I said that was going to be affected, and I said, "Be worried about your produce. Be worried about your groceries because ain't nobody else, we us the regular Americans, the the ones that ain't worried about, you know what I'm saying, being deported. We not about to pick that shit."

[00:21:32]I said this. I said this 2 years ago. I said this all last year.

[00:21:38]I'm tired of always being right.

[00:21:42]Especially at the expense of my [ __ ] pockets.

[00:21:49]When you vote in the line of hate, this is what happens. Because if they voted differently, what they're facing, they could not be facing now. But they chose a person who looks like them, so they decided that Trump is going to help them. He looks like them. He do better for them. The policies will favor them.

[00:22:08]It will be better for them as farmers.

[00:22:10]What is happening in Texas is not only in Texas, it's also happening to other parts of of America. But food to rot in the farm is very very sad to see food rotting in the farm. And like now where everything is very expensive, groceries are very expensive in America. And what is happening is going to affect so many people because as they grow this food is what is being expe- expected to be in the shelves in America so that people can consume. So when food is going bad, it's not only going to affect the farmers, it's going to affect other people, too, Americans. So for the farmers, it's also going to affect them and it's affecting them in a very bad way because we are not planting these things to rot in the farm. You needed people to work in the farm so that you can get your money back. If you have a loan, you need the money to pay to pay for this loan. And now you don't have people in the farm to work.

[00:23:08]And Trump said he's going to deport in migrant. This is where I'm saying they did not vote the way they were supposed to vote. They could have listened to black Americans. Black Americans have a way people normally put them aside that they are not well informed. They vote with their feelings. They don't know how they vote. It's not okay. They should not follow black America. But even after that, they can see result. This is what they are getting. And you know, black people when they tell you run, you run.

[00:23:38]When they tell you move, you move.

[00:23:40]Because they see far. They had seen what is going to happen. But white people, they didn't see it. That is why you can see they're having a very very big problem with poor farmers in Texas, white farmers in Texas. This is very very sad. How are they going to reverse this? It's not easy to reverse because a problem have already happened. Next time, they should not vote in the line of color that I'm voting my person, someone who looks like me, someone who is going to favor me, someone who is going to do better for me. If you're voting in the line of punishing the other community, you see the result what has happened now. Thank you so much for watching this video. If you have not subscribed to my channel, kindly subscribe. Leave your comment. Would this have been different if they voted differently because of the result we can see in America? Let's have a conversation below. Bye and see you on the next one.