During a campaign rally in Wisconsin over the weekend, former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, suggested that his plan to deport millions of immigrants in the United States would utilize violence on a massive scale.

Trump falsely insinuated that immigrants living in the U.S. were mostly violent criminals, a claim that has been debunked many times over the past several years. He also peddled the false claim that violent immigrants had “taken over sections” of the state of Colorado — a blatant attempt at fear mongering for political gain.

Trump has made immigration a focal point of his presidential campaign. He has vowed to become a dictator in order to achieve his far right immigration goals, and has promised to use the military to establish huge camps to detain people in what would be “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” conjuring imagery reminiscent of Nazi concentration camps. He has repeatedly spewed fascist, racist rhetoric against immigrants, alleging that they are “poisoning the blood of the country.”

During his rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, Trump noted that his proposal to round up immigrants would require violence.

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