In the Latest Illegal Immigrant Sob Story, NY Times Hilariously Laments, 'Who Will Cut the Shrubs?'

From the moment President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office in January and started enforcing illegal immigration policy, the left has lost its collective mind. They just can't wrap their heads around the concept that if you enter the country illegally, you are breaking the law. They insist that these are just poor people in search of a better life, here to "do the jobs Americans won't do." Recently, The New York Times offered up an almost It's a Wonderful Life scenario of an America with no immigration. And one of the examples they used, even though we have heard it before, was unintentionally hilarious.

New York Times: We have a Shrubbery Crisis

Time to call in Roger the Shrubber.https://t.co/5h26QXgwYN
— TS the Deplorable (@TStheDeplorable) December 30, 2025

The Times pointed out that new home building remains slow, but construction wages are on the rise, an indication to the experts at the Grey Lady that deportations could be hitting the construction industry especially hard. But in an amusing effort to relate to their ever more left-leaning readers, they offered up this dire warning that the landscaping industry could see the same fate. Kim Hartmann is an executive with a landscaping business in Chicago, and claimed that landscaping crews, often largely made up of immigrants, were "easy deportation targets over the summer." She went on to say:

It’s going to be much more competitive to find that individual who’s been a foreman or a supervisor and has years of experience. We know that drives costs up.

No finely manicured shrubs? Say it isn't so! The Times added its own bit of completely out-of-touch buffoonery, adding, "There are limits to how much customers will pay for decorative shrubs, and they may opt to go without." This is no doubt proof positive to upper-crust New York Times readers that Orange Man is, in fact, bad. It is also eerily reminiscent of a statement from then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA11) in September of 2022, when speaking about the border crisis, she said, "Why are you shipping these immigrants up north? We need them to pick the crops down here." What comes next are just the predictable illegal immigrant tales of woe. Local festivals and celebrations are not being attended, and parents are keeping their kids home from school when they hear about deportations.

NY Times: Trump's Migration Policy Threatens Nation's Shrubbery

Hmmmm, keep the illegals in the US to maintain shrubs, or enforce the law and let the shrubs grow out. I’ll take enforce the law. https://t.co/frgXRVP2cW
— Joe Rumolo (@jrumolo) December 30, 2025

But while the New York Times bemoans the employee shortages in fields like construction and healthcare that many illegal immigrants work in, they also addressed the current topic of immigrants and assimilation. They focused on Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and how the county's population is growing due to an influx of immigrants. They were despicable enough to point out that Lancaster County is home to the largest Amish community in the U.S., and described them as "a community that has refused to assimilate." Are they kidding? The Amish "refuse to assimilate" because of their religious beliefs, something they have every right to do, not because they have snuck into the country to take resources from legal Americans.

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But, of course, the New York Times is willing to throw people like the Amish under the bus to see to it that illegal immigrants are at the top of the victimhood totem poll. Mark Krikorian is the director of the Center for Immigration Studies and made this observation about the New York Times' lack of shrubbery technicians article, and how they talk about illegal immigrants versus average Americans.

Working-class Americans are just contemptible, even when the immigrants display all the same qualities that in working-class Americans they find contemptible.

Sadly, for The New York Times and its shrub-loving readers, the landscaping crews may be in short supply for a while. How much are they supposed to endure? Whose next, the pool boy?

Great NYT imagined-readership line: “But there are limits to how much customers will pay for decorative shrubs, and they may opt to go without.”
— sola joe 🦬 (@solaverbo) December 29, 2025

Editor's Note: Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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