“What I view is the moral hazard created by the Biden administration by allowing the U.S.-Mexico border to remain unsecure,” he began, before pausing and shrugging his shoulders as the audience began to boo.
An audience member later in the town hall referred to Alligator Alcatraz, the recently constructed detention center in the Florida Everglades, as a “concentration camp.”
Other audience members went after Steil for being too closely aligned with Trump.
“I am so disappointed in how you represent us, as the citizens of Walworth County. Southeast Wisconsin is not represented by you,” one man said. “President Trump seems to run southeast Wisconsin, through you.”
The event’s moderator stepped in at multiple points to attempt to quiet the crowd, CNN reported, and called out a specific audience member for being “very obnoxious and very disrespectful.”
