Warnings that Republican nominee Donald Trump poses a fascist threat to U.S. society as a whole — and to the nation’s immigrants in particular — grew Friday following his visit to Aurora, Colorado, where he used a rally to spew xenophobic vitriol that even the city’s right-wing mayor condemned as lie-filled and dangerous.

Throughout his 80-minute speech, Trump — flanked by posters that read “Occupied America,” “Deport Illegals Now,” and “End Migrant Crime” — used openly fascistic language to falsely characterize Aurora as “infested” with Venezuelan gang members who came to the United States from “the dungeons of the Third World, from prisons and jails, insane asylums and mental institutions.”

Aurora, Trump lied, has been “invaded and conquered.” Trump pledged that, if elected to another White House term next month, he would invoke the draconian Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport alleged gang members without due process — a plan he dubbed “Operation Aurora.” More broadly, Trump has vowed........

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