As you know, immigration is right up there as one of the USA’s top concerns. Not to put too fine a point on it, too many foreigners are gaining entry to our shores. Migrants are “poisoning our blood,” as former President Donald put it at a rally in New Hampshire last December.

The Heritage Foundation is complaining about the presence in California of the former Prince Harry of England and his wife (a US native) Meghan Markel.

The foundation wants to see the couple’s visa applications and is suing the Department of Homeland Security to that end. Prince Harry, according to the foundation, has been improperly allowed to reside in the United States, as he confessed in his 2023 memoir and elsewhere to previous use of cocaine and other illegal drugs.

The foundation questions “whether DHS properly admitted the Duke of Sussex in light of the fact that he has publicly admitted to the essential elements of a number of drug offenses in both the United States and abroad.”

Some, perhaps, would urge in Harry’s favor that it seems hardly fair that he should be singled out for this lifestyle choice in California, of all places.

Because he was born a royal, Harry was not given a surname. His official name was His Royal Highness Henry Charles Albert David, Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton, Baron Kilkeel. At one time he used the title “Wales” as his last name. Now Harry, Meghan and their children, Archie and Lillibet, call themselves the Sussexs (Sussexes?). It’s pretty suspicious when a person is filling out an official government document and right off the bat can’t even manage a simple thing like first name, middle initial and last name.

On “Good Morning America,” Harry said he was considering becoming an American citizen, although that was “not a priority.”

The latest Royal scandal involves Kate Middleton’s confessed photoshopping of a family portrait on social media. Alterations included changes to the sofa upholstery, a repeated curl pattern on Mia Tindall’s hair and a cutout around Prince Louis. Shocking! This grievous deception has apparently been swept under the royal carpet since it became known that the princess is ill.

Here’s something that might be useful for Steve Kornacki, multimedia and data analyst, to consider next time he’s tallying up election results on his big board.

Back in 2015, “Bloomberg Businessweek” published an article by Eric Chemi titled “Food Politics: The United States of Bacon and Kale.” Experts who study social media trends, Chemi reported, ascertained that the number of times Twitter users tweeted about two foods, kale and bacon, gave a pretty fair idea which way they leaned politically. Are you a kale person or a bacon person?

Mentions of kale predominated in blue states, while bacon was tweeted about more in red states. I can’t imagine that anyone could prefer kale to bacon. (Be honest.) Still, New York is a kale state.

Whether the mentions were favorable or unfavorable didn’t signify. Someone in New York could tweet, for example, “I simply loathe kale,” or “I find kale indigestible,” or “I don’t see the relevance of kale,” while someone in Wyoming or Mississippi might tweet “Bacon hardens the arteries.” That seemed not to matter. All the media trend experts were doing was counting how many kales, how many bacons.

Bacon states included Iowa, Alabama and Kentucky. Some kale states were Hawaii, Vermont, Massachusetts and California.

As you might expect, both coasts trended kale; yet political preferences were not clearcut.

Texas and Oklahoma were swing states according to a color-coded map, while Georgia clearly leaned toward kale. At the time, this seemed contradictory, but with the 20-20 vision of hindsight, we can see that this result was prescient, predicting upcoming political trends.

In the interest of compromise — crossing the supermarket aisle as well as the Democrat/Republican aisle — Chemi suggested a recipe from Emeril LaGasse featuring both Kale and bacon. (Still, spinach might be better.) Kornacki could compare mentions of fast food and avocado toast.

In local news: Last night I was awakened by moonlight flooding in through my window, its brilliance intensified by a recent snowfall. “The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow gave a lustre of midday to objects below,” to quote Clement Clarke Moore. This would have been a welcome — even magical — sight in December, but still beautiful, even in March.

Have a good week.

(Martha Allen, of Keene Valley, has been writing for the Lake Placid News for more than 20 years.)