As Readers of this Blog know, this Blogger’s father was a Trotskyite; in practical terms that meant he had this Isaac Babel/Pol Pot syndrome that field sweat cured intellectual elitism, so he made sure all of his sons had to work in the fields one summer. This Blogger had to spend time on a cattle ranch in the Oklahoma Panhandle, near Guymon, sorting out various forms of cow dung. Every year, in my youth, recruiters would come down from the Connecticut River Valley to recruit Brooklyn boys to work in the tobacco fields of Connecticut, harvesting Connecticut Shade Tobacco. One year, my brother, doing his Trotskyite duty, went off to the John Steinbeck fields to curb his intellectuality. “ Connecticut  shade tobacco is a tobacco grown under shade in the Connecticut River valley of the U.S. states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and southernmost Vermont, and is used primarily for binder and wrapper for premium cigars.” Since his brother’s Steinbeck sojourn, this Blogger has

TPS- Temporary Protected Status   is a temporary status given to eligible nationals of designated countries who are present in the United States.   TPS meant that citizens from Third World nations, which could not cope with war or disaster were allowed to stay and work in the United States. Last week, in  vulgar language, President Trump shattered the euphemism of Third World Nations, drawing attention to this immigration program. The following nations are protected under TPS- El Salvador (earthquake)since 2001, protecting 263,280 Salvadorians. Haiti-(earthquake)since 2010, protecting 58,700 Haitians Honduras(1998 hurricane),Nepal (2015 Earthquake), Nicaragua(1998 hurricane),Somalia(2012 Somali civil war),South Sudan(2016, civil war),Sudan(2013, civil war), Syria( 2012, civil war), and Yemen(2015, civil war). President Trump indiscreetly disparaged Haitians living in America under TPS, and has advocated for their repatriation to Haiti. Liberals and Globalists took umbr