Trump Fed pick once said migrants are 'economic heroes' for their home countries

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Trump Fed pick once said migrants are 'economic heroes' for their home countries
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One of President Trump's picks for a seat on the Federal Reserve board once praised undocumented immigrants to the United States as 'economic heroes' and 'entrepreneurs' -- a position at odds with much of the President's rhetoric on immigration

Washington One of President Donald Trump's picks for a seat on the Federal Reserve board once praised undocumented immigrants to the United States as"economic heroes" and"entrepreneurs" -- a position at odds with much of the President's rhetoric on immigration.

Judy Shelton, a conservative economist and 2016 Trump campaign adviser, said in a September 2016 interview on"The Exchange," a Reuters podcast, that she spent years teaching at a business school in Monterrey, Mexico, and found that those who migrate to the US"are not the least educated," instead describing migrants as"venture capitalists.""They are risk takers and admirable for that," Shelton said at the time.

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