That issue is what led Kumar Wickramasingha to attend his first town hall with Grassley last week in southeast Fort Madison. The 62-year-old immigrated to the U.S. from Sri Lanka in 1986 and has since lived in the small Iowa town and become a naturalized U.S. citizen. He said he feels scared again for the first time since he left Sri Lanka.

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley faced another room of heated constituents at a town hall in Northwood, Iowa, on Wednesday.