DREAMers Meet Rand Paul; So Why Did He Run Away? (VIDEO)

A representative from the DREAM Action Coalition confronted two prominent Republicans in a restaurant earlier this week. What she didn't expect was that Sen. Rand Paul would make a hasty exit and leave Sen. Steve King to handle the confrontation by himself.

Paul is in Iowa this week on a three-day fundraising trip. He's expected to be a presidential contender in 2016.

"The video, which was shot during a fundraiser in Okoboji, Iowa, shows Paul biting into a hamburger as coalition co-director Erika Andiola introduces herself to King," reports the website RawStory.com. "As soon as she tells King, "I'm actually a DREAMer, myself" - referring to young undocumented immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program - Paul puts the burger down and appears to be chewing more rapidly as a staff member leads him away from the conversation. Andiola, who was brought to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 11 years old, criticized Paul on Twitter for his refusal to participate in the discussion."

Andiola called Sen. Paul out on Twitter following the event, saying he "ran away" from a conversation on immigration.

Some backstory on the DACA program involves King. He "joined other House Republicans last week who proposed a bill to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a 2012 effort by the Obama administration to grant leniency to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children," reports the Daily News.

"Paul hasn't gone so far as to call for the end of DACA but has instead support immigration reform in recent weeks with an emphasis on border security not a path to citizenship.

"I am for immigration reform, but I insist that you secure the border first because if you have a beacon, of some kind of forgiveness, without a secure border, the whole world will come," Paul told "Meet the Press" in June," the paper reported.