Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan got some unexpected visitors at his book signing this weekend, when young, undocumented immigrants approached his table asking, “Do you want to deport me and my sister?”
Ryan, who was signing copies of his new book “The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea” at a Books-A-Million store in Panama City, Florida on Friday night, was confronted by activists advocating for undocumented immigrants brought into the country illegally as young children.
The Republican posed for a strained photo with a young man, who begins to ask him about his recent vote to defund President Obama’s deferred deportations for immigrants who were brought to the country illegally by their parents at a young age.
The young man explains to Ryan that defunding deferred deportations would put both him and his sister up for deportation, to which Ryan repeatedly directs him to “read the position in the book” and cites the Constitution as a cause for his vote.
“We read it, do you want to deport me and my sister?” the young man asks again.
This isn’t a new confrontation for the Wisconsin Republican: he actually recounts a similar scene in his book—which msnbc read last week—when a young student confronts him about his votes to defund another executive order the president had authorized to try and alleviate the pressures on young DREAMers.









