Mass deportation of immigrant farm workers creates labor shortages that devastate agricultural operations, as demonstrated by Texas farms shutting down after losing nearly 100% of their workforce, which subsequently causes food shortages, economic losses for rural communities, and increased costs for consumers, illustrating that immigration policy decisions have significant economic consequences beyond immigration enforcement.
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America already has labor shortages, housing shortages, rising inflation, expensive food, super expensive construction, super expensive rent, delayed infrastructure projects, and we're deporting immigrant workers at a record number at the same time. Who pours concrete? Who frames houses? Who installs roofs? Who tiles bathrooms? Who picks the crops that you eat? Who works food processing? Who works at the warehouses? Who cleans hotels? who rebuilds cities after hurricanes and fires? Meanwhile, everybody's online screaming, "Why are homes so expensive?"
Why? Because reality matters. You cannot have labor shortages, tariffs, increasing material costs, fewer workers, deportations, higher interest rates, and somehow expect housing prices to magically collapse. And this goes way beyond construction, agriculture, restaurants, hotels, landscaping, warehouses, factories, elder care. Who's going to take care of our old people?
America, whether you like it or not, has become dependent on immigrant labor. And it happened decades ago. And now people say, "Well, Americans are going to do these jobs." Okay, where are they? The unemployment rate in most skilled trades is super low. There are not millions of unemployed roofers, welders, drywall instalters, masons, farm workers sitting home waiting to start work tomorrow. The workforce does not magically appear overnight after you kick everybody out.
And now economists are warning something called a labor shock. Meaning too many workers disappearing too fast. So what happens after a labor shock? Prices skyrocket, food costs skyrocket, housing costs skyrocket, projects stalls, businesses panic, inflation goes crazy.
So this is no longer an immigration issue. You don't like standing next to somebody who doesn't look like you, sound like you, act like you. This is becoming an economic issue for every American. [music] We're here. We are here at the FAFO stage. Um, this is really bad. Um, and if you appreciate my content, please engage with this video. I'm just going to read this to you.
Multiple Texas farms shut down after almost 100% of workforce vanishes overnight. In a stunningly swift overnight change, some Texas farm operations had to shut down after losing virtually all of their workforce. 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. Unpicked crops are now left unh harvested.
livestock were left untended and rural economies are on edge. The story isn't just a tale of woe for Texas farms. It's a warning for American aggra business, food prices and communities that keep food on our plates.
I [clears throat] need you to share this with every Republican you know. And you don't 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. You talk about the immediate shuttering of farms because this is actually what's happening with the food with the harvest that are lying there completely rotting.
That is a loss of food to local food distributors, local grocery stores, local uh restaurants, hospitals. They sell their harvest, all sorts of vegetables to businesses within the state of Texas. This is where you can go into your local grocery store and now you're going to see hardly any vegetables or fruit depending on what they're growing or a shortage of meat.
This is what's going to happen. Now, all of the other industries that support farming, you've got local pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer suppliers that are just their sales are going to plummet.
These farmers aren't going to be purchasing that. You've got H2A workers who are now gone. Migrant workers who are now gone. They were paying taxes.
Even if they didn't have social security numbers, they were given tax numbers, tax ID numbers. So now you got millions of dollars just poof gone overnight from these Texas communities.
You've got trucking companies that are hired to haul the >> um they come here because of the opportunity. Some are coming with drugs.
Some are coming with human trafficking.
Some are coming for no good reason. Some are organizing the other ones uh as banditos and coyotes and other uh malifactors. But most overwhelmingly are coming for the jobs. Yes, they're taking our jobs. No, they're not taking our jobs. They are taking jobs that you don't want. Now, is that absolutely true? No. Some of the jobs they take are jobs that Americans may want. very rarely is something 100 in terms of the uh equities involved, but overwhelmingly they are taking jobs that are unfilled because Americans do not want them or can't live on the wages that they get paid to do them.
So that's why they're coming. So what happens when they leave? You now have people in a lot of the service industries and aggro business uh that aren't there. So what is that going to do? It's going to reduce services. It's going to make it more expensive to get things picked, sorted, packaged, delivered, cleaned, cooked, etc., etc., etc. And that will be a challenge for the economy. And that's why I don't believe that Trump does a deportation of all of them. I don't think it's possible. I don't think it's legal. I don't think logistically it makes sense in terms of how expensive it would be.
>> We're here. We are here at the FAFO stage. Um, this is really bad. Um, and if you appreciate my content, please engage with this video. I'm just going to read this to you. Multiple Texas farms shut down after almost 100% of workforce [music] vanishes overnight. In a stunningly swift overnight change, some Texas farm operations had to shut down after losing virtually [music] all of their workforce. 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.
Unpicked crops are now left unh harvested. Livestock were left [music] untended and rural economies are on edge. The story isn't just a tale of woe for Texas farms. It's a warning for American Agra business, [music] food prices, and communities that keep food on our plates.
I need you to share this with [music] every Republican you know. And you don't even need to wait for their response.
They just need to know what's happening.
[music] And this is part of my line of work. I deal with commercial farmers, including these small farmers, as clients. [music] And I cannot tell you how this is the beginning of the complete collapse [music] of our economy under this Project 2025 administration that doesn't know what they're doing. You talk about the immediate shuttering of farms because this is actually what's happening with the food with the harvest that are lying there completely rotting.
That is a loss of food to local food distributors, local grocery stores, local uh restaurants, hospitals. They sell their harvest, all sorts of vegetables to businesses within the state of Texas. This is where you can go into your local grocery store and now you're going to see hardly any vegetables or fruit depending on what they're growing or a shortage of meat.
This is what's going to happen. Now, all of the other industries that support farming, you've got local pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer suppliers that are just their sales are going to plummet.
These farmers aren't going to be purchasing that. You've got H2A workers who are now gone. Migrant [music] workers who are now gone. They were paying taxes. Even if they didn't have social security numbers, they were given tax [music] numbers, tax ID numbers. So now you got millions of dollars just poof gone overnight from these Texas communities.
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.
Now, you're going to have other industries who don't employ either migrant workers or H2A workers who are going to have to have 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.
And you want to know which farms are going to be impacted further down the road. They're going to be safe for now. There's a small percentage of farmers who are actually Democrats 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. This is going to impact farmers. They're at risk of going out of business. Who's going to jump in?
the federal government to compensate them with our tax dollars. So now our tax dollars is going to be used to cover the [ย __ย ] 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 under Republican leadership.
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>> Well, Iowa farmers are going through it.
Not just Iowa farmers, but check this one out.
>> The reality he and thousands of other Iowa farmers are facing is nowhere near as bright.
>> Farmers are under a lot of stress. A lot of farmers are reporting to us that in some cases they're on the brink of a crisis.
>> The reasons why vary. Iowa Corn Growers Association President Mark Mueller says the skyrocketing costs and availability of fertilizer, which is largely controlled by just a few companies, is the most current issue.
>> I'd say it's safe to say that my fertilizer supply, my fertilizer company is making more money per acre than I am off of the corn I raise. And I'm not even sure I'll be making money on corn this year.
>> But some say it's merely the latest.
Ultimately, the problem >> fertilizer is up 77%.
They're paying over $5 a gallon for gas.
They're in the middle of a trade war.
And let's just add fertilizer of where we get our fertilizer is stuck at the straight of Hormuse. Yes. Yep.
Iowa voted for this administration. And likely they these farmers voted for this three times. And no, this is not the first time that Trump did this to them.
He screwed over farmers in his first term. We're stumbling into all these FAFOs and if you saw he mentioned uh high farm suicide bankruptcies. I've reported on all of those.
This is going to be a very rough time for all farmers in the USA. A very very hard lesson that they can only learn themselves. If you found this post sad but informative, please like, comment, follow, and Okay. Well, let's get on to the white folks. the white farmers. So, word is out now that the white farmers voted for Dadra because they thought they were going to get black Americans in the fields [laughter] because they also thought black folks did not have jobs.
>> [laughter] >> So when we put this all together, [laughter] somehow the white farmers were convinced that black folks don't have jobs. We don't work. [laughter] We We don't work. And so they voted for Donald Trump because they thought, "Okay, he going to send them in the fields." So Donald Trump and them with their whole project 2025 said, "Okay, so we got to make this happen. So we got to cut these DEI stuff, all this DEI stuff to put black Americans out of work." When in reality, they put a bunch of white folk out of work just to get black folks out of work.
>> [laughter] >> And so all these cuts, all these cuts that [clears throat] are happening are to try and harm black Americans so much to they think that we're going to go into the fields.
Now, when you think about that, that makes you double back and see why they want the Latinos out because the Latinos, right, to them, they are reproducing entirely too fast. Okay? And so they're like, "We got to get them out of here.
because black Americans don't reproduce as fast as the Latinos.
[laughter] And so if we could get them out, then the black Americans can take their place in the field. That's This is for real. And so now you double back to the black jobs. They're taking your job. [laughter] Yes. You got to double back to what he said. They're taking black jobs, y'all.
Like, they have all this down. Like, they have all this whole circle.
So, now let's go back to the farmers if you're still with me, okay? Because the white farmers, they that's what they believed was going to happen. So, if y'all got Hello, Americans who like to eat. I'm Linda and I want to talk about empty grocery shelves. They are coming and sooner than we think. There's a 3,000 per day immigrant detention quota.
40% of farm workers in the United States are undocumented. You do the math. Farms are an excellent place to find undocumented immigrants to detain and deport, depleting the workforce. And now those who haven't been rounded up are afraid to show up. Let's look at just one state, Texas. According to farmers, this issue has been affecting their farms for a couple of weeks, but overnight it bottomed out. On several Texas farms, nearly 100% of farm workers aren't showing up. So, what does that mean for you? Remember Trump's comment about having two dolls instead of 30?
Cows are milked three times a day. No workers, no milk, and some very unhappy cows. What if your grocery store in get instead of getting 30 gallons of milk gets two? 28 families will not be able to buy milk. Now extrapolate that among produce. Produce that instead of being harvested is rotting on the vine. Texas is one of the top 10 producers of 40 major commodities. It is the fourth largest agriculture producer in the nation and second in animal products.
And it's not just cows not being milked and produce rotting on the vine. One in seven Texans works in an agriculture related job. If farms stop working, those jobs are affected. Workers not earning money aren't paying taxes. And yes, undocumented workers pay taxes.
Without money coming in, they will cut back on things like restaurants and small businesses, movie theaters, wherever they spend their discretionary income. Last week, Trump ordered a halt to immigration enforcement at farms. But it may already be too late to solve the current problem. The lack of workers now mean farms won't hit full production this year. And if they lose planting now, there is nothing to harvest later.
Yet, despite Trump's assurances, a few days after his statement, the administration resumed the raids. Vance says the administration plans to continue clearing the country of undocumented immigrants. Quote, "We're enforcing everywhere. In other words, you ought to voluntarily go back and come through the proper channels."
That can literally take years. And frankly, it doesn't protect you from being deported. In the meantime, the question remains, how long are you willing to go without food? Bye Americans. Have a nice day.
>> The Trump administration now wants to make it easier for farms to hire immigrants after trying to deport all of them. After conducting mass deportation of farms and all the ICE raids, Trump is now trying to get all of those immigrant farm workers back. Because it turns out Americans never wanted those jobs and they still don't. Shocker. [snorts] And the farms are really pissed off about losing a majority of their workforce. So he's going to make it cheaper for farms to hire workers on an agricultural visa called the H2A visa. Under this new rule, wages will be lowered even more.
So, what should these farmers do? Apply for a labor trafficking visa, which can get them a green card if they can prove that they've been trafficked into the United States by their employer and then further exploited. So, then they can leave their employer and then file a lawsuit against them.
>> We have some big news right now. The Trump administration is now turning to migrant farm workers to address farm labor shortages. According to the New York Times, no, I'm not making this up.
after conducting mass deportation of said migrant farm workers at the beginning of his second term. They're now trying to get them back essentially.
So, the Trump administration is now turning to an alternative source, making it cheaper for farmers to hire immigrant farm workers on temporary visas. These changes specifically impact the H2A visa program. And under the new changes, the agency, the Trump administration, has now adjusted how wages paid to H2A farm workers are calculated, essentially lowering the hourly rates, anywhere from a dollar to $7 in some states. And farm owners can now include housing as part of the compensation package provided to guest farm workers. They're reducing wages of farm workers in an effort to try to hire more migrant farm workers.
that's brought a lawsuit from the farm workers of America saying that essentially it adversely harms American farm workers by lowering their wages or pushing them out of the labor pool entirely. But it is stunning that after trying to deport undocumented immigrants, farm workers, the Trump administration is now trying to rely on migrant farm workers to conduct the job due to the labor shortages. Spread the word. Follow >> I got to farm with my dad every day.
It's a way of life. It's a wonderful way of life and uh it's at risk and it shouldn't be.
>> The impact of Trump's tariffs is being felt in the heartland.
>> Soybean farmers here are now suffering economically like they haven't in decades.
>> Right now we are harvesting soybeans in Mingo, Illinois. My family has been farming since 1846. I'm the fifth generation.
We're a grain operation. We grow corn, soybeans. I am a product of the pioneers. It's history. You don't let that go. One of the best memories that I had was just my dad teaching me how to drive a tractor. I got to farm with my dad every day. It was pretty cool.
How many people could do that? It's a way of life. It's a wonderful way of life.
And uh it's at risk and it shouldn't be.
It's total [ย __ย ] Human lives are at stake. It's stupid.
The whole thing is stupid.
>> I'm very proud of him. He's done a great job. He's kind. He's very caring. He cares about other people. I didn't really want him to be a farmer. When my husband got sick, he asked if he could take over the farm. He said, "Mom, give me 3 years. Just give me [music] 3 years." So that's what we did. and it's turned into 16 years.
>> Harvest is usually the best time of the year. It's literally the fruits of your labor. This is the time where we as farmers get to celebrate all of our hard work and that we [music] get paid for our year's worth of work. And unfortunately, this one has a real bitter taste to it because the money is being spent right now in Argentina and being given to billionaires. Farming is hard enough as it is dealing with mother nature, but this year especially is very challenging because of the tariffs that have been put upon us. Our cost of production has increased and our markets have dropped dramatically. And this is really putting a major strain on all farmers right now.
If anybody who's not a farmer and they say, "Well, what do I care about? What's happening with farmers? What does that matter?" Well, in Illinois, 20% of all jobs revolve around agriculture. And when farmers have money, we spend it.
And we spend it on really big high ticket items like combines or tractors, all of whom are made in major rust belt areas. And those are really highpaying good jobs. And that trickles down to the waitresses who get better tips, to our schools because people have more income.
The schools get better funded.
And right now we're just in a major holding pattern because we have no income.
The American people are hurting right now. The farmers are hurting right now.
There is absolutely no reason for this.
>> Our [music] grain prices are down. We have tariffs. We have a bumper crop. We don't have people to sell it to. China hasn't bought one of our beans. We don't have those um markets anymore because of the tariffs.
>> I'm looking at the commodity prices where they're at, which is how I get paid. I'm having a real difficult time trying to give a positive outlook for 2026. When President Obama was in office, we had a wonderful jolt of energy because we had an administration that said, "We're going to have advanced bofuels power our country." And then Trump got in there and decided to have his trade wars again and everything else and to roll back all those environmental protections and the egg economy started to tank. Joe Biden gets in there again.
Hey, we're going to have advanced bofuels. We're going to have airline fuel that comes from cornbased ethanol.
What happened? Prices went up again, up to an all-time high, right where they were. Trump gets back in there again, we're going to have a trade war and boom, prices are tanking again.
>> President Trump is set to be considering a bailout of at least $10 billion for farmers. That may be too little, too late.
>> We don't want a bailout. We want a market. Bailouts are band-aids. We aren't even made whole off of this.
That's money that should be going towards senior citizens. That's money that should be going for the Affordable Care Act. That's money that should just be going to regular tax cuts for normal Americans and not billionaires. What he is doing is destroying our markets. And when those markets disappear, we're not going to get them back.
We need to have a new policy. We need to have an egg policy that works for farmers again. And we know what works.
We have to be able to make a living doing this. The years that we do the best are when our products are in demand. And our products overwhelming for the history of this country are in demand when we have a strong export market. And we have to keep those markets alive. We have to do that. And this administration isn't doing that.
People came to this country for opportunity. Opportunity equal land. And we're giving that up. And it's wrong.
It's absolutely wrong. Part of the reason why the greatness of this nation is because we take care of people and there's values of the family farm that need to be upheld and it's good for America. All of us farmers have officially [ย __ย ] around and we have officially found the [ย __ย ] out. Now guys, I am on the verge of bankruptcy. I'm on the verge of [ย __ย ] tears. Overnight, all of my [ย __ย ] help fled. my help out of fear for their safety, their lives. They fled and now I am left out here standing in my unh harvested carrot field. It is January and I'm in Kansas and this is when carrot harvest goes in [ย __ย ] Kansas.
This field should be full of workers.
But all my [ย __ย ] workers left. And who the do you think is to blame for that?
Every single one of them left. Now I have to by myself try to fill that truck with a load of [ย __ย ] carrots in one day. And I can't do that, guys. I have to get these [ย __ย ] carrots to market by next week where my contract is terminated. This is $936,000 worth of carrots right here. And I can't [ย __ย ] pick them by myself. If they are unharvested, I will get kicked out of that contract and I will get sued by the Planters Loves Carrots Company.
>> Hello there, brothers and sisters. And I hope you are doing fine from wherever you're watching this from. Now, black Americans were all over the internet warning the white farmers in uh all these farming states, telling them that um these deportation policies by President Trump would not be beneficial to them. But still they went ahead and voted for um DJT not once but twice, not twice, three times. um that is the first time, the second time that he lost and um the third time now that he's now the current president and um he did mention clearly that amongst the many things that um he wanted to do in America were um border protection, mass deportation of undocumented immigrants and all those other you know policies. Now what is worrying is that in as much as he had mentioned this um policies prior and um they were there they were outside there for everybody to see but black um Americans were warning the uh immigrant communities were warning the Latinos, the Hispanics and uh these white farmers that they cannot afford to um support mass deportation of um undocumented immigrants because they would eventually lose people to work on their farms.
you know, in as much as we don't encourage um you know, uh going into other countries with um you know, in ways that are not legal, but um we understand the role that these immigrants play in America or whatever um role they play in the agricultural sector because they are the ones that work um in the farms for the minimum wage because they are the ones who are doing the heavy work for these white farmers. And um now they went ahead and voted against their own interest whereby u they wanted them to be sent back because somehow they thought that um Trump would bring black people to work on their farms because they thought maybe black people do not have better jobs. But now um that is not happening.
They are all over the internet crying from earlier on this year because they they cannot sell their their farm produce because of the taxations because of the high tariffs uh that President Trump has imposed on a lot of countries.
They are not able to um go to the farms.
They're not able to pick their fruits because there are nobody literally nobody to work on their farms. Now they're begging u President Trump asking him to bring black people to work on their farms which cannot um cannot really happen. Recently we saw u President Trump saying that he wants to work on a way to bring this to bring back this uh immigrants um but the owner the farm owner would be responsible for these people. So that in a layman's understanding could be um he is bringing them back but um the farm owner would be responsible for them then people can literally interpret that in very very many different ways and um it does not really really look good. So I think it's um high time we learn that um no it's high time we learn that um proximity to whiteness or um all these um not listening to people when they are being warned about his policies um will eventually catch up with them. that bad leadership when is uh elected into office then it affects everybody and not only one specific race because clearly they thought that um these policies were there to um you know um were going to affect only black Americans and not them. Now to their surprise they are the ones who are um affected greatly by that because black Americans have been resilient throughout the years. they have been able to find ways to to live through u different economic situations.
So therefore they can be able to survive these ones. And we've seen blacks um talking to themselves, talking to the other saying that they keeping off this protest that they are no longer going to be um in the front line fighting for these communities and it's their time to fight for their own battles because these are um what they brought uh to themselves. So I think it's their time to find out what they um planted and I think they can do better when um election period comes um you know in the coming years. Thank you so much for watching and if you are watching me for the first time please take a minute to give the video a thumbs up like subscribe and share so that you can help me grow the channel. Also in a special way I would love to thank those who have been supporting the channel from day one by joining the membership the super thanks uh the buy me coffee link and all that. May I see your support and I'm so so grateful for that.
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