By Jose Serrano (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Jul 20, 2015 08:24 PM EDT

As Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker posed for pictures outside his Plainfield, Iowa childhood farmhouse on Sunday, the Republican presidential candidate was confronted by an undocumented immigrant looking to keep his family together.

"When are you guys going to take time to fix immigration reform? So we've got to be deported?" 38-year-old Jose Flores, accompanied by two of his four children, asked Walker in an exchanged posted to YouTube.

Flores's 13-year-old daughter Leslie then said, "Why are you trying to break my family apart."

Walker, who initially averted the family's questioning by taking a half-hour tour, returned to answer why Wisconsin was part of a lawsuit challenging President Obama's executive action on deportation relief. Under Deferred Action for Parental Accountability, Flores and his wife would be eligible for legal residency, along with upwards of five million immigrants.

"The fact is, we're a nation of laws," Walker said. "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."

While Walker said he "completely sympathized" with Leslie, he wouldn't drop his state from the lawsuit because Obama cannot "make law without going through Congress." The governor added that, as president, he would secure the border and implement a system that enforces immigration laws.

Despite his anti-immigration reform rhetoric, Walker -as Milwaukee County executive - twice signed resolutions supporting programs that would grant undocumented people legal status. Last March, he told a private gathering he would endorse a pathway to citizenship; though Walker later refuted the conversation occurred.

Soon after, 13-year-old Luis asked the governor if he wanted to see his dad get deported. Walker looked down at the boy, telling him his nieces also got to school in Waukesha.

"I appreciate kids like you and kids like them so that's not what my point is," Walker said. "My point is that in America, no one is above the law."

Watch the full exchange below.

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