A week before the GOP nominating convention, Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 At indoor rally, Pence says election runs through Wisconsin Juan Williams: Breaking down the debates MORE (R-Wis.) made clear he disagrees with presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE’s plan to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants.

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“I don’t agree with that. I don’t think rounding up 11 million people A) is the right thing to do, B) would work,” Ryan said during a CNN televised town hall event. “And I don’t think you’d like to see what we’d have to do to the country to do that.”

Ryan, the chairman of next week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, has endorsed Trump. But the men represent two different camps in the Republican Party on the issue of immigration.

Trump is a hardliner who’s called for building a wall along the southern border and deporting everyone in the country here illegally. Ryan has pushed for immigration reform legislation during his congressional career, though he believes the country first needs to secure its border.

“I think you have to secure the border, you have to have reforms that get people out of the shadows and get right with the law and make sure while you are securing the border, you are fixing what’s broken in the legal immigration system,” said Ryan, the GOP’s 2012 vice presidential nominee.

“That to me is an approach that makes sense, and it won’t require a round-up or mass deportation.”

Later in the program, Ryan was pressed by a woman in the audience to explain how he could back a candidate who has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.

“I disagree with him on it. It’s just that simple. No two people agree on everything,” Ryan said.

But, he added: “We have a binary choice. Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Democratic super PAC to hit Trump in battleground states over coronavirus deaths Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight MORE. I pick Donald Trump.”

“On balance,” Ryan said, Trump is a far better choice than Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, especially when it comes to the list of possible conservative Supreme Court picks that Trump released last month.