Immigration activists from all over the country came together and interrupted Republican Sen. Marco Rubio's speech during the Faith and Freedom Coalition summit in Washington D.C on Thursday. The senator brushed off their complaints over the president's executive orders.

On Thursday, Sen. Rubio, one of the Republican Party's presidential favorites, spoke at the 2015 Road to Majority Policy Conference. Though the Florida senator did not intend to address the issue of immigration during his speech at the conservative event, immigration activists attempted to force the topic during an impromptu protest, Politico reported.

As the senator spoke the DREAMer activists stood up and began chanting "Protect DAPA" and "Implement DAPA." The incident was caught on video, which was uploaded to YouTube. DAPA refers to the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, one of the president's executive actions announced in November last year. DAPA would allow the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens or residents to avoid deportation for at least three years, if they meet the required criteria.

However, DAPA, as well as the expanded DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), are on hold while a lawsuit moves through the court system.

After the protesters were removed amidst the cheers of the attendees, Sen. Rubio remarked that in some other countries they would not have been able to do speak out.

"In America, people have the right to interrupt speeches. They have the right to be rude," he told the audience. "If you do that in another country, your family's house could be raided, your businesses can be closed. In America, people have a right to interrupt speeches; they have a right to be rude. They have a right to be wrong."

However, to some immigration activists like the DREAMers present on Thursday, Sen. Rubio's rejection of the president's executive actions and his stance on immigration policy goes against the senator's own background as the son of Cuba immigrants as well as his branding as a Latino voice from within the GOP.

"Because of DACA, I've been given the opportunity to keep my education going, to work and service my community the way we all want to do," Martin Negrete, a Washington state college student, told Think Progress. "I personally would be hit directly if Mr. Rubio was to attack DACA and take it away. My brother and I are both undocumented individuals and it's really hard for us to live life knowing that at any moment, people like Rubio can step in and just tell us, 'get out of my country, you don't deserve to be here.'"

Negrete, who is a DREAMer, travelled over 3,000 miles to partake in the protest of Sen. Rubio, whom he calls "one of the champions in attacking DACA and attacking DAPA."

Watch the incident: