The National Republican Congressional Committee is targeting Democratic Rep. Adam Gray of California in a new ad campaign.

The NRCC released its first ad targeting Gray on Tuesday. The ad targets Gray’s record on immigration.

“Adam Gray voted to give criminal illegal aliens driver’s licenses. He voted against funding to deport dangerous criminals. Adam Gray is dangerously radical on immigration,” the ad states.

Gray currently represents California’s 13th congressional district, a seat identified last year as one of the most vulnerable of the upcoming midterm elections. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s efforts to redistrict ahead of midterms may have given Gray some room to breathe, however.

Immigration has been a top issue for Republicans since President Donald Trump returned to office in January. Immigration remains one of Trump’s most popular issues, though Americans’ approval of Trump’s handling of immigration has slipped since he effectively ended massive amounts of illegal immigration that poured into the country under the Biden administration.

That ad hits Gray over a couple of votes on his record regarding immigration, one of them from over a decade ago. In 2013, while Gray was serving in the California assembly, he voted in favor of a bill that would allow illegal aliens to receive a California driver’s license.

Last year, Gray voted against Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which, in part, provided funding for finishing the border wall along the United States’ southern border. It also provided a surge of funding for hiring thousands of federal immigration agents.

The One Big Beautiful Bill included a slate of other Trump priorities, as well. The bill made permanent the 2017 tax cuts from Trump’s first term in office, secured $12.5 billion for the national air traffic control system, and funded development of the Golden Dome missile defense system.

Gray is in his first term as a U.S. congressman, having flipped California’s 13th district from Republican control in 2024. Gray beat then-incumbent Republican Rep. John Duarte by less than 200 votes.

Gray’s strongest opponent this cycle is Kevin Lincoln, the Republican former mayor of Stockton, a city added to California 13 under the new congressional map pushed for by Newsom.

“From Assemblyman to Congressman, Adam Gray’s out of touch, radical immigration votes put criminal illegal immigrants first and the safety of California families dead last. Californians deserve a Congressman who will put their safety first,” NRCC spokesman Christian Martinez told The Daily Wire in a statement.

WASHINGTON—The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division says there is no merit to an MS Now report alleging that top DOJ officials quit their jobs over an alleged division decision not to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good.

The report from the outlet formerly known as MSNBC alleged that at least four officials from the Civil Rights Division resigned “in protest over the administration’s handling” of Good’s death, citing “three people briefed on the departures.”

MS Now reported that their frustration was specifically with Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon for her decision not to investigate the incident, writing that the departures “represent the most significant mass resignation at the Justice Department since February.”

There’s a problem with this reporting, however: according to Dhillon and her staff, there has not been a single resignation over the incident.

“This is fake news,” Dhillon told The Daily Wire of the story. “No division employee quit.”

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Three people applied for early retirement the day before the shooting, which occurred on January 7 in Minneapolis, Dhillon said. Those three people gave notice weeks before the shooting took place, and the fourth person mentioned in the story put in for retirement in early December, over a month before the shooting took place.

Two of the other people that the MS Now story references have not resigned and are currently at their desks working, The Daily Wire has learned. While they have “apparently told the press they intend to resign,” Dhillon said, “our office has not received notice of any resignations.”

“The media’s never-ending attempts to drum up drama and strife within the DOJ are exhausting,” Dhillon said. “My team and I will not let it distract us from our mission of protecting the civil rights of ALL Americans. We thank those employees retiring for their years of service to the Department and our nation.”

The FBI is investigating the January 7 incident, the ICE agent’s actions, and the networks of activist groups funding anti-ICE protesting as well as Good’s possible connections to such networks in Minnesota, a law enforcement source confirmed to The Daily Wire.

As for a possible DOJ Civil Rights Division investigation, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says “there is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation.” A DOJ official told The Daily Wire that ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility is conducting its own investigation.

“As with any officer-involved shooting, each law enforcement agency has an internal investigation protocol, including DHS,” the DOJ official shared. “As such, ICE OPR has its own investigation underway. This runs parallel to any FBI investigation.”

Video footage from that day shows Good hitting an ICE agent with her car, whereupon he exclaims as he fires at her, fatally shooting her in her car. President Donald Trump’s administration has vehemently argued that the act was one of domestic terrorism against the ICE agent, who was previously dragged by a car as he attempted to carry out his orders.

MS Now did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.