Clinton: Illegal immigrants keep U.S. ‘younger and fresher’

Published June 21, 2016 5:13pm ET



Hillary Clinton argued Tuesday that Donald Trump’s plan to kick out 11 million illegal immigrants would devastate the U.S. economy, and actually make it harder for the U.S. to compete with others.

“The youth and diversity of our workforce is one of our greatest assets. Most of the rest of the world that we compete with is aging,” she said in an economic speech in Columbus, Ohio.

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