Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker was confronted by a family of an undocumented worker during a campaign stop in his childhood hometown of Plainfield, Iowa on Sunday.

During the encounter, 38-year-old Jose Flores and his two young children, who were born in the U.S., questioned the Wisconsin governor about why he is blocking President Barack Obama's plan to protect up to five million undocumented workers from deportation, including parents of children who were born in the U.S., reports The Washington Post.

"Why are you trying to break my family apart?" said Flores' 13-year-old daughter, Leslie, to Walker in front of a swarm of media personnel.

In response, Walker repeatedly told the Mexican migrant and his two weeping children that "we're a nation of laws." The presidential hopeful went on to say that he "completely sympathize[s] with the situation you're all in and others are in" but explained why he does not support deferred action.

Walker said, "The fact is, we're a nation of laws. And unfortunately, the president last year, after saying 22 times before last year that he couldn't make the law himself, he said he wasn't the emperor, he was the president of the United States and he couldn't change the law, he decided to change the law even though the courts announced that you can't do that."

At another point, Flores' seven-year-old son, Luis, asked the governor, "Do you want me to come home and come from school and my dad get [deported?]"

"No that's not what I'm talking about," Walker said, telling the little boy that his nieces also go to school in Waukesha, Wisconsin. "I appreciate kids like you and kids like them so that's not what my point is. My point is that in America, no one is above the law."

Flores said both he and his wife would both be eligible for deferred status under Obama's executive actions. However, Walker is among oen of the Republican governors who have signed a lawsuit blocking Obama from taking action.

Flores asked Walker to consider dropping his support for the lawsuit, but Walker said he would not.

"I support the lawsuit because I believe the president can't be above the law," he said.

Following the interaction, the Flores family expressed disappointment in Walker's response.

"He lied to us," Flores said, according to ABC News. "He lied to us because he say he support immigration reform and he support DAPA, OK, so if he support DAPA, why he blocking it?"

Watch the exchange below.