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Los Angeles: Australia's strict merit based immigration policies received a thumbs up from from US President Donald Trump in the same early morning tweet praising Australian author and conservative activist Nick Adams.
"Nick Adams new book, Green Card Warrior, is a must read," Trump told his 25.8 million Twitter followers on Friday.
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Trump sent out the tweet after Adams was interviewed on Fox & Friends on Friday, the Trump friendly US morning TV show on Rupert Murdoch's Fox News cable network.
Trump is known to be a regular viewer of Fox & Friends.
Adams has become a regular guest on US talk shows and cable news programs and argues immigrants to the US must speak English.
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Adams' book recounts his attempt to attain a green card to work in the US and, according to his publisher's website, is set "against the larger story of the broken legal immigration system, and unfairness of illegal immigration in America today".
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Nick Adams, Australia-born author. Photo: http://nickadamsinamerica.com
Despite his Australian upbringing, he is a voracious supporter of the US.
Adams describes himself on his website as a survivor of childhood cancer who earned undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Sydney and, at the age of 21, was publicly elected the youngest deputy mayor in Australian history.
In the US he created The Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness (FLAG), an organisation dedicated to promoting American exceptionalism and combating anti-Americanism worldwide.