Donald Trump endorses book on Green Card pursuit via merit

WASHINGTON

: Millions of immigrants hanker after a permanent residency in the

United States

, in a tortured pursuit often dubbed the "green card blues." Now, President

Trump

has indicated what could be an easy route to it under his watch: show your merit, and possibly, be conservative!

In an unusual plug that comes at a time his aide Kellyanne Conway is still under fire for hawking his daughter’s merchandize from the

White House

podium, the US President on Friday endorsed on twitter, a book on the green card pursuit. "Nick Adams new book, Green Card Warrior, is a must read. The merit-based system is the way to go. Canada, Australia!" Trump wrote, days after he proposed economic criteria for immigration rather than the family-based one that is currently the primary driver.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nick Adams new book, Green Card Warrior, is a must read. The merit-based system is the way to go. Canada, Australia! <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends">@foxandfriends</a></p>&amp; mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837633820417482754">March 3, 2017</a></blockquote>

It turns out that Adams is an Australian immigrant who struggled for nearly five years to get a

US Green Card

, because, he says, he was persecuted by the Obama administration for being a conservative. He writes in the book that he was eventually granted an "extraordinary ability" green card by the US, but it wasn’t easy.

"It was a 4.5 year battle, and cost almost fifty thousand dollars. It is an incredible tale of sabotage and juxtaposes the enormous difficulty of legal immigration with the red-carpet welcome of illegal immigration," he says.

Now a resident of Texas, Adams runs a foundation on "American Greatness" and calls himself a conservative "culture warrior" appearing often on TV shows plugging the Trump line. It was one such appearance on

Fox News

channel on Friday morning that appears to have caught President Trump’s eye and generated the tweet a few minutes later.

In the show, Adams maintained that "if America is going to remain the best nation on this earth, we've got to make sure that we bring only the best people here."

"There has to be a cultural buy-in from those that decide to make America home. They can't just come here and milk us. They've got to love the place and they got to become American," he argued.

Incidentally, Government ethics rules barring product endorsements don't apply to Presidents, so Adams can happily milk the bonanza.