Trump tweeted that this new immigration book is a "must read." So I read it -- and you must not.
Review of "Green Card Warrior" by Nick Adams
By Carlos Lozada March 3 at 6:30 PM
GREEN CARD WARRIOR
By Nick Adams. Post Hill Press. 112 pp. $12.99
In a tweet early Friday morning, President Trump hailed Nick Adams’s new book, “Green Card Warrior,” as a “must read,” suggesting that it offered lessons on how to reimagine the U.S. immigration system.
Well, now I’ve read it, and it is not a must read. If not for the president’s endorsement, the book would barely rate a must acknowledge. It is, however, a must laugh, a must groan, and, if “Green Card Warrior” is indeed where Trump is finding ideas for immigration reform, it is also a you must be kidding me.
Adams, a 33-year-old conservative commentator whose longtime dreams have included providing election analysis for the Fox Business Network (hey, if you’re dreaming, you may as well go big), wanted to emigrate from his native Australia to the United States. This book details his quest to gain U.S. permanent-resident status, also known as a green card, which subsequently enables recipients to more easily acquire U.S. citizenship. It is a tale of meetings with immigration lawyers and interviews with consular officers, of emails and documents shooting and back forth, of bureaucratic delays and snafus and — spoiler! — of eventual success, when Adams wins his visa.
But in the author’s eyes, it was a saga for the ages, revealing gross miscarriages of justice, a dedicated conspiracy against his conservative politics and the naked abuse of power by liberal forces seeking to deprive America of his imported greatness. The application process left Adams feeling misunderstood and victimized, full of self-generated rage and imagined grievance.
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