8,000 or 11,000 people that can make it to the u.s. and we cannot technically stop. if they touch a u.s. official, they have one finger or one toe on our soil. we re not going to just take them, they will come across and we will release them into the population. the caravan is moving on foot, they re hundreds of miles from the borders. the president is telling americans to be scared of this. it s the democrats fault. every time you see a caravan or people illegally coming into our country, think of and blame the democrats. this could work, don t you think in terms of ginning up republican voter enthusiasm. it could work. the number one issue republicans list in terms of their voting in the midterms is immigration, they shouldn t stop us from saying this is a kacaravan of lies.
walsh. we also have with us mark preston, senior political analyst. ben, let me start with you, there isn t any proof that middle easterners are in this crowd of the caravan, why make the claim? i think it s a bigger point the president is trying to make. we don t know all the people in this kacaravan. all the people are not people looking for asiylum and doing good things p.m. we know in this country, every day the government stopped 10 people a day in 2017 that were on terrorist lists or connected to terrorism. that s not i m sorry to interrupt. that s not necessarily at the mexico border. right. anyone coming into the united states. the easiest area to come into this country illegally, and we ve seen it from al qaeda, if there s ways to get into america, one of the easiest ways to do it is not on a plane. the president is going back to things that worked well for him in the election. we need to secure the border. the fact that you have 10,000 or
doubling down on a lie. president trump trying to stoke fear and repeating without evidence that there are unknown middle easterners making their way north to the u.s. mexico border. we should go find it. take your camera, go into the middle you re going to find ms-13, middle easterners, you re going to find everything. sadly, it looks like mexico s police and military are unable to stop the caravan heading to the southern border of the united states. criminals and unknown middle easterners are mixed in. our reporters are with cameras in the middle of the kacaravan, they called the president s campaign unfounded. in fiscal year 18 the government apprehended 3,000 special interest aliens from countries such as bangladesh, pakistan, nigeria and somalia.
47 years. jeff zeleny is live where president trump is about to campaign for senator ted cruz. has the white house offered any evidence to back up the president s claim of unknown middle easterners in the kacar n caravan. the president has just arrived here, he has not expounded on that, but we expect him to do that at the rally. sarah sanders told reporters a short time ago, there is absolutely evidence of this, but she went on to give no evidence at all. no specific yesterdayible evidence of their being middle eastern women inside these caravans. what this is about, i m told, talking to a variety of people. this is simply, look at the timing. coming 15 days before the midterm elections. the president has been increasing this rhetoric against immigrants, he s been talking about the borders more and more. it hasn t been breaking through. this is one way the president is trying to breakthrough.
not only the middle easterners mixing in, that s a lie. but this notion that the democrats have anything to do with the caravan. they don t, the notion that they re coming, these migrants are coming to commit voter fraud. we don t have a voter fraud problem in this country. we have a voter suppression problem. republicans have searched and searched. the bush administration did a five year study of voter fraud, they found 120 cases of voter fraud, they were likely felons. it s an issue of letting people into this country who did not come here the right or appropriate way. when you have someone who s able to break into your country. there s potential for that person to have voter fraud. there s been no proof. they re advocating for immigrants to be able to register to vote. we ve seen where they ve been able to register to vote. the numbers are tiny. you don t think it s going to