DeWine this week deployed state troopers to bolster security at Springfield schools. He has also pledged $2.5 million to provide the city with more resources to better accommodate its population increase.

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), Trump's running mate who currently represents Ohio in Congress, has suggested that their comments stem from concerns over border security. Trump has previously floated using the military to deport millions of undocumented immigrants by "following the Eisenhower model" -- a 1950s mass deportation initiative, named after a slur used for Mexican immigrants, that rounded up migrants and, in some cases, brown-skinned U.S. citizens under the guise of border security.