ROYAL OAKS — Monterey Mushrooms hosted Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Carmel Valley, agriculture leaders and farmworkers at its facility in North Monterey County for a tour and roundtable discussion on Friday.

But the message of farmworker and agriculture issues and immigration reform, which was to dominate the proceedings, was partially eclipsed by the week's news of bombs being mailed to critics of President Donald Trump.

"I'm not scared," said Feinstein. "I've had a bomb placed at my house years ago. So been there, done that."

Feinstein, who is running for re-election against Democrat Kevin de Leon, said the "message is you can't keep riling people up" with name-calling of opponents, degrading the media and law enforcement.

Feinstein said she was disturbed by some of the images found on the van of the suspected bomb mailer, who was taken into custody earlier in the day, namely an image of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in crosshairs.

"At (Trump's) rallies they're still chanting, ‘Lock her up.' … Why?" said Feinstein. "What we see are flames of hatred. He should be bringing people together, not separating them."

On immigration reform, farmworkers and other agriculture-related issues, Feinstein said she is working on drafting an immigration bill that essentially has three parts.

The first would be reintroducing a portion of the last farm bill that had bipartisan support. Called the Blue Card Bill, it says that if a farmworker has worked in an ag field for two years, with no arrests, that individual would qualify for a blue card. It would enable the worker to continue to work in agriculture for five years at which point the worker would receive a green card and be put on the path to citizenship.

"What we want to do is make one last stand. My office is in the process of drafting an immigration bill that will have a number of things," said Feinstein.

Feinstein said the first part would be the Blue Card Bill, second, the administration would not be permitted to separate families at the border and the third would be a court settlement that says you cannot hold small children for more than 20 days in secure facilities.

"And we would put ag jobs back into this immigration bill," said Feinstein, who added it would be put forward in January 2019.

Feinstein took the opportunity at the roundtable to ask Panetta if he would be willing to introduce the bill into the House of Representatives, to which he replied: "I'd be more than happy to."

United Farm Workers Secretary/Treasurer Teresa Romero, UFW President Arturo Rodriguez, owner of Monterey Mushrooms Shah Kazemi, Feinstein and Panetta were present at the panel.

Growers and agriculture representatives, UFW members from the Central Coast and the San Joaquin Valley and UFW staff were also in attendance at the event.