Republican attorney Chris Madel, a GOP gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota, announced Monday that he is ending his campaign.
Madel said his decision to resign is because he can no longer align himself with the national party’s approach to federal immigration enforcement in the state through Operation Metro Surge, calling it “an unmitigated disaster.”
“I support the originally stated goals of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s operation, locating and deporting the ‘worst of the worst,’” Madel said in a video on X. “But Operation Metro Surge has expanded far beyond its stated focus on true public safety threats.”
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His resignation comes after news that a Border Patrol agent fatally shot Alex Pretti. Pretti died in a physical confrontation that began when he intervened in an immigration operation he
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