Farmers leave the Law high and dry

I’m writing to give my own view point, on the story “Bill’s failure leaves farmers high and dry” by Ruben Navarette. Mr. Navarette, like many pundits doesn’t really have a grasp of this nation’s laws. He laments the plight of a grape grower in the Central Valley of California. Ruben kind of passes over the little detail of who is footing the bill for this marvelous supply of cheap labor, that businesses in California are utilizing to buy pickups, or pricy private educations for their children. That would be the tax payers of California. The Republican rightwing racists, as well as those pesky union members he condemns, are tax payers. I don’t see any difference between the pot farmers up north in Humboldt County, and the grape growers in the Central Valley utilizing illegals. In both instances you are making a profit by circumventing the law. Most people would understand if the growers were willing to cover the temporary workers they want to utilize, with health coverage. I have never heard any one bring up, that important little detail. To be profitable a business internalizes profit, externalizes costs. I have no problem with a business, unless those externalized cost are being born by the tax payer. If this is the only way these businesses are profitable, is via the violation of our nations laws. Then the owner and officers of the companies violating the law should be imprisoned, and their assets seized. Companies, who are following our nation’s laws, should not be put at a disadvantage. I think what Mr. Navarrette is failing to comprehend is, the interests of American workers. Any politician who doesn’t put the interests of American workers first, probably want survive the next election.