(The Center Square) – Des Moines, Iowa, school board chair Jackie Norris ended her campaign for U.S. Senate Thursday, citing her need to focus on the school system in the aftermath of its superintendent being charged by immigration agents for being in the country illegally.

Norris and other school board members faced heavy criticism when their now former superintendent, Guyanan national Ian Andre Roberts, was arrested by immigration officials. When ICE ERO-Des Moines officers approached him on school property, Roberts sped away in his taxpayer-funded DMPS vehicle to evade arrest, ICE said. Officers later found the vehicle abandoned near a wooded area The Center Square reported . Iowa State Patrol assisted with locating and arresting him, authorities said. He remains in ICE custody.

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