Whatever protection Barack Obama granted to young, undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children, the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is now looking a lot less secure. While Donald Trump never came down definitively on one side or the other, alternatively promising to repeal Obama’s immigration executive actions (which would include DACA) and insisting that whatever “very firm” course he pursues, “it’s going to be a lot of heart” [sic] and “they’re going to end up being very happy.”

That apparently does not include Juan Manuel Montes, a 23-year-old undocumented immigrant who was recently deported to Mexico after he was stopped by authorities and could not immediately provide proof of his protected status. “I thought that if I kept my nose clean nothing would happen,” Montes, who says he renewed his DREAMer status through 2018, told USA Today. He is currently living in western Mexico with his extended family after trying and failing to cross back into the U.S.

It’s not clear whether Montes’s case is the result of a bureaucratic error or the expanded immigration crackdown currently underway. According to the Department of Homeland Security, his DACA status was expired and he had a prior conviction for shoplifting. On Tuesday, Montes sued the Trump administration, disputing the government’s account and seeking information about why he was deported.

Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa, however, didn’t wait before celebrating the young man’s deportation to Mexico. “First non-valedictorian DREAMer deported,” he tweeted, posting a photo of a dark, foamy pint of beer. “Border Patrol, this one’s for you.”

King’s comment was widely condemned as insensitive at best. But it was not surprising, considering the Iowa congressman’s long history of xenophobic, even racist statements about immigration. Last summer, he raged against demographic changes to the U.S., arguing during a live TV segment that white people contributed more to civilization than any other categories or “subgroup of people.” Last month, he tweeted an explicitly white nationalist message urging Americans not to “restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” (King doubled down in a follow-up interview with CNN, telling host Chris Cuomo that the “push to bring in much illegal immigration into America” is designed to “replace the void” created by abortion, and warned that many are “living in enclaves, refusing to assimilate into the American culture and civilization.”)