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Posted: 2019-11-28T17:26:07Z | Updated: 2019-11-28T17:26:07Z

Former Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley (D) said he confronted acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli at a bar in Washington on Wednesday over the Trump administration s treatment of undocumented immigrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.

OMalley, who lost a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, told The Washington Post that he was at the Dubliner, an Irish pub thats popular with graduates of Washingtons Gonzaga College High School on Thanksgiving Eve, when Cuccinelli walked in.

Both OMalley, 56, and Cuccinelli, 51, attended Gonzaga in the 1980s, graduating five years apart, the Post reported.

OMalley, reportedly face-to-face with Cuccinelli, bashed the Trump administrations migrant family separation policies and the abhorrent conditions of detention centers at the U.S. southern border.

We all let him know how we felt about him putting refugee immigrant kids in cages certainly not what we were taught by the Jesuits at Gonzaga, OMalley told the Post via text message.

He described Cuccinelli as the son of immigrant grandparents who cages children for a fascist president. (It was actually Cuccinellis great-grandparents who were immigrants.)

The two men long have represented opposite political positions on immigration. For instance, as a Virginia state senator, Cuccinelli sponsored legislation to strip the citizenship of children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants, reported the Post. He pursued that policy and took other hard-line stances on immigration issues as Virginias attorney general from 2010-2014.

OMalley, during his 2007-2015 tenure as governor, promoted policies to provide additional resources and rights to those same children.

He discussed the tense encounter with the Post after a tweet from another bar patron who witnessed it went viral Wednesday evening.

OMalley was shouting, Siobhan Houton Arnold tweeted. I dont think Cuccinelli was responding. I think hes like, Time to go. Just got here and Im leaving. He pretty much retreated.

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Martin OMalley just drove Ken Cuccinelli out of the Dubliner in DC w/ a passion-laced and shame-invoking tirade on behalf of immigrant refugee children!!!

Siobhan Houton Arnold (@siobhanphilly) November 27, 2019

OMalley insisted to the Post that he wasnt shouting but was speaking loud enough to be heard in the crowded bar.

A representative for Cuccinelli did not immediately respond to HuffPosts request for comment.