It's a romanticization of the yeomanry, who formed the earliest European settler-colonists (killing indigenous peoples for their land). The idolization of the yeoman farmer, tilling "their" land, is both idolizing the earliest European perpetrators of genocide in the Americas and distorting the fact that today, agriculture is done in capitalist fashion, as you point out.
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What?
The "farmer" doesn't actually do any farming, they just own the means of production and exploit the farmers.
The undocumented immigrants aka the "criminals" are the real farmers.
The undocumented immigrants aka the “criminals”
Optimistic. I interpreted it as depicting straight-up convict leasing.