Farmers in northern Pennsylvania are warning that the Trump administration's immigration crackdown is worsening an already dire labor shortage that has forced some to sell off livestock and others to leave crops unharvested.
In Tioga County, where Donald Trump won three-quarters of the vote in 2024, frustration is mounting, as a new sprawling piece by Politico has revealed. John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield, told the outlet that his operation has struggled to survive without migrant labor. "The whole thing is screwed up. We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do."
