Caitlyn Jenner wants to move homeless people to 'big open fields,' saying they are 'destroying Venice Beach'

• Caitlyn Jenner wants to address California homelessness by having people camp in "big open fields."
• She blamed homeless people for an uptick in crime and said they were "destroying Venice Beach."
• Jenner is attempting to take Gov. Gavin Newsom's seat in a special recall election in California.

Caitlyn Jenner wants to deal with homelessness by having California's population of more than 60,000 homeless people moved to "big open fields."

Speaking with the California television network KRON 4 this week on its program "Inside California Politics," Jenner said she wanted to get homeless people off the streets by finding "some open land" where they could pitch tents.

"Venice Beach is destroyed," Jenner said, telling the host Frank Buckley about her recent visit to the area. "They're destroying Venice Beach. They are destroying all the businesses out there."

"We have to clean that up," she added. "We have to provide some place for those people to go, whether it's an open field out in some place, or if you notice at the veterans' facility, there's these big open fields and a lot of places there."

She reiterated her belief that homeless people were responsible for increases in certain types of crimes.

"We can't have that on our streets," Jenner said.

In the interview, Jenner went on to say she would advocate tougher immigration regulations by building a wall in the state's border with Mexico.

"As governor, I would finish the wall on state land, where you can finish the wall," she said. "I think we need controlled immigration in this state. We need to know the people that are coming into this state."

Jenner is running for governor in California and hoping to unseat Gov. Gavin Newsom in a special recall election that is set to take place September 14.

Jenner announced her candidacy in April and has since made several statements that have been criticized as out of touch. In a May interview with the Fox News host Sean Hannity, she said she did not think California needed a high-speed rail, repeatedly mentioning her private jet.

"Here's my crazy thinking," Jenner said in the interview. "We are now spending billions of dollars on this high-speed rail, OK, and they talk about it all the time, between LA and San Francisco. And I'm going, 'Why are we doing that?' I can get on a plane at LAX, and I'll be in San Francisco in 50 minutes. Why do we need high-speed rail?"

She was referring to an in-progress public-transportation project that stands to connect people from Anaheim and Los Angeles to San Francisco via a three-hour train ride.

In the same interview, Jenner also mentioned that a friend whose airplane hangar was near hers was leaving California because he "can't walk down the streets and see the homeless."