- There are people kindafollowing up on that

who like to call you antisemitic,

who like to call you aracist, Mr. President.

What would you say to these people?

- Well, you know, the word racist

is used about everyRepublican that's winning.

Any time a Republican is leading,

they take out the R word, the racist word,

and I'm not anti-immigrant at all.

I'm all for people cominginto the country legally

and people based on merit.

But when you see a caravanthat's pouring up to our country

with thousands of people,maybe 10,000 people now,

and then you see theviolence that was caused by a

second caravan that's formingon the northern Mexico side,

where you look at what'sgoing Guatemala and Honduras

and you look the violenceand people being hurt,

Mexican soldiers being hurt and police,

they're throwing rocks in their face.

Look, we're not gonna letthem come into our country.

We have 10, and we might even go up

to 15,000 soldiers on our border.

We are building a wall in its own way.

We're putting up walls of barbed wire.

And when you look at what we're doing,

they're just not coming into our country.

They might as well go back now.

But take a look at the violence

that they've created down there,

the level of, I mean, these are not,

these are not angels, as you would say.

These are not angels.

- You were, you say you're not

gonna let 'em into the country,

what is this about tent cities

and that could be a tricky situation now.

- Well, we're gonna build housing.

Obviously, it has to be built very fast.

And we're gonna give them better

housing than many of them have.

We're going to hold them.

We are not gonna release them.

We're gonna hold them until their

deportation hearing goesand their asylum hearings.

- No catch and release?

- No, we're not gonnado catch and release.

Catch and release is no good.

Obama proved that.

President Obama proved that.

Catch and release is no good.

And we've got it downto a very good system

and we're gonna be very strong on it.

We're not going to be releasingpeople into our country

that never show up for their court case.

- On immigration, one last question,

what about the critics who say

look, you're just doin'all of this for political,

you know, to gin up thebase and everything.

What's the answer to that?

- Well, if I am, I'vebeen doin' for a long time

because I've been on thisissue for a long time,

ever since you've known me.

- [David] True.

- And now we have a chanceto do something about it.

The problem we have is wehave no Democrat votes.

We need Democrat votesin order to pass bills.

And, you know, 'cause we avery, tiny little majority.

We'll see what that is,

but now we have anotherelection coming up.

We need Republicans because the Democrats

will give us no votes on anything.

They don't mind open borders.

They don't mind crime becauseopen borders mean crime.

They don't mind crime.

They don't want to takecare of our military.

They don't want to take care of our vets.

And that's where we are,

but we have no votes onimmigration with the Democrats.

And we can't let that happen.

So I've been very strongon immigration, David,

as you know, right from the beginning,

right from the first time you saw me.