(Radio Iowa) – One of the races in next week’s Primary Election is in Iowa’s fourth congressional district, where Kevin Virgil is challenging Republican Randy Feenstra of Hull, who’s seeking a third term in the U-S House. Virgil is a former Army captain, a former C-I-A officer and an entrepreneur who launched a software company that has won U-S military contracts. He grew up near Sutherland, on an O’Brien County farm.

“When it became obvious that nobody was going to run against Feenstra this time, that just accelerated my decision to come back home,” Virgil says. Virgil supports 12-year term limits for members of congress, a 50 percent reduction in the federal workforce and a hard closure of the U-S-Mexico border.

“We need to make sure that our companies are only hiring people who are authorized to work here in America…which means extremely stiff penalties and I would also propose comprehensive immigration reform,” Virgil says. “Maybe some sort of short term Visa for working class, non-Americans who want to work in a meatpacking plant or in a low skilled job because they can earn more here than they can back home, but it needs to be regulated. It needs to be controlled.”

Virgil, who criticizes Feenstra for supporting construction of a carbon pipeline, says eminent domain should not be used for the project.  “It’s not just unconstitutional to seize land from a private citizen for another person or another company’s private gain, it’s unAmerican,” Virgil says, “and I think it’s an extremely important issue.” Feenstra’s campaign manager says Feenstra delivers conservative results and Iowans will reject Steve King’s effort to send a New Yorker to congress to represent Iowa’s 4th Congressional District.

Former Congressman Steve King, who lost to Feenstra in a G-O-P Primary four years ago, encouraged Virgil to run and has endorsed him.