A New Jersey man confronted a Democratic congressman Thursday on video over support for President Donald Trump’s war on immigrants—and caught the conversation on video. 

‘Never again’ demands courage in the face of bigotry. This is cowardice.”
—Samuel Finkelstein

Samuel Finkelstein, a progressive activist who is a student at Seton Hall University, told Common Dreams that he drove nearly 60 miles on Thursday from his home in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional district to the 5th Congressional district to confront Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) at the congressman’s appearance at the Blairstown Diner in Blairstown, New Jersey.

Finkelstein asked Gottheimer about Gottheimer’s votes in favor of the president’s border policies.

“I want to hold Gottheimer accountable for screwing the House Progressives on the emergency border funding bill,” Finkelstein told Common Dreams. “N.J. voters want representatives who will stand up for undocumented Americans. There are thousands of undocumented people in N.J.-5, and Josh Gottheimer is failing to represent them.”

In particular, Finkelstein wanted answers on why Gottheimer voted in favor of a June border funding omnibus bill that funneled nearly $5 billion into the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies, including what Finkelstein described as “concentration camps” that are holding detained migrants indefinitely in horrific conditions. Gottheimer also pushed to include anti-immigrant language into a gun control bill that passed the House earlier this year. 

“Why did you vote to fund Trump’s concentration camps with no strings attached as far as, ‘this has to go to humanitarian aid?'” Finkelstein asked Gottheimer. “We know that after that funding bill was passed, ICE said that they were building more camps.”

“Obviously I have a very different perspective on that legislation,” said Gottheimer, who told Finkelstein after confirming Finklestein was recording the encounter that Gottheimer would return with a binder to discuss the border funding bill and his reasons for voting for it.

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“None of these guys are capable of defending anything they do without asking some aide to bring them a binder,” said The New Republic‘s Alex Pareene.