US President Donald Trump has said he “loves” immigrants.

Trump, who on Tuesday launched his campaign for the presidential election, slammed the journalist, who accused him of being “very harsh about immigrants,” saying: “Do you mean clandestine immigrants?

“I love immigrants, this country depends on immigrants,” Trump said, adding that he wanted more of them to fill the many industrial jobs he says he has brought back to the United States since his election in 2016.

In the first interview with a Spanish-language television network, Donald Trump confirmed that the unemployment rate among Hispanic speakers was not so low in the country’s history, and that his popularity rating was up 17 points.

“They do not want people who take their jobs and do not want criminals to come, because they understand the border better than anyone else,” he said.