Ag labor reform is overdue, but …

Rep. Dan Newhouse’s call on this page for the U.S. Senate to pass his Farm Workforce Modernization Act repeats his longtime call for reform, and it’s by most accounts a reasonable and necessary legislation for all the reasons he states in his column on this page.

There are factors he doesn’t mention that you might want to know, and I have one question.

First, not everyone agrees the bill is a good...