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It's kind of funny. I used to work in a community that was absolutely pro-Trump.

Why is that amusing? It was a big farming community. Tobacco, cotton, peanut, and soybean farms all over the place. Who worked in those farms? Yeah, illegal immigrants. They used to come into the store in truckloads. They'd use the sinks to drink without buying anything and they lived jammed together in old houses during farming season.

The tricky bit is finding who to blame, though.

When I was a growing up, farmers would hire teenagers to work in the fields when it was time to harvest. But most teenagers don't work at all now. Heck, most of them would probably outright die if they had to work in tobacco in 95 degree heat. Cropping tobacco is bloody hard work and very few Americans will do it for low pay.