NEW HAMPTON – At a town hall meeting in New Hampton today, Congressman Steve King abruptly cut off one of his constituents, a DREAMer who was in the middle of asking a question, telling her “you’re done.”
Monica Reyes, a resident of New Hampton, is part of a program King is trying to eliminate — Deffered Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Instead of answering Reyes’ question, King interrupted her twice, eventually saying:
“No, I’m going to respond to you now. You’re done. I asked you politely to stop. We’re going to go to another question.”
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According to Ms. Reyes:
I grew up in New Hampton, Iowa and immigration is really important to our community. For us, it’s not about politics, it’s about families.
We had over 20 people attend the town hall today to tell Steve King that we support immigration reform. In fact, we had more people at the event than Steve King did. However, Steve King completely disregarded me as a human being at today’s meeting. He barely let me speak and he did not answer a single question of mine.
DACA is really important to Iowa. There are over 4,500 Iowans like me that can benefit from DACA.Steve King is trying to take it away without even having a conversation about it. He needs to compromise and stop blaming the influx of central American minors into the United States on DACA. He needs to have an open mind and listen to what other people have to say (especially immigrants that have a better insight). I stood up to him, and he showed what a tyrant he can be. Do we really want to let such a man represent Iowa?