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Bill Clinton: U.S. needs immigrants

By EAMON JAVERS | 4/29/10 5:07 AM EDT


'America has got to get back in the future business,' former President Bill Clinton told the crowd at a Washington, D.C., fiscal summit.

Bill Clinton on Wednesday tackled two of the hottest-button issues on President Barack Obama’s agenda lately: immigration and financial reform.

Appearing at a Washington fiscal summit, the former Democratic president made a robust pitch for immigration reform, telling the crowd that allowing new immigrants into the country was not only acceptable to him but essential to preserving the nation’s economic future.

In a panel discussion with moderator Bob Schieffer of CBS News, Clinton said that the United States has become an “older societyâ€