It’s the same way here. You can’t find locals to work in the tobacco or hay fields. All of our farmers hire migrants. Some hire legals and some hire illegals. Legals are fine; illegals are not. I’m all for them working our farms if they are documented but that is the only way.
Tennessee?
Perhaps Algore can help:
"I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it, I've dug it, I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, Ive shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it, and sold it."
Maybe he was talking about pot, not tobacco.