The agency said Ian Andre Roberts, a Guyana national and superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, was in the country illegally and had a
The agency said Ian Andre Roberts, a Guyana national and superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, was in the country illegally and had a final order of removal.
Sept. 26, 2025, 3:51 PM MST
By Marlene Lenthang, Joe Kottke and Laura Strickler
The superintendent of the largest public school district in Iowa was arrested Friday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which alleged he was in the country illegally and without a work authorization.
Ian Andre Roberts, a Guyana national and superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, was arrested in an operation, ICE announced in a news release.
Roberts has helmed the district since July 2023, according to its website. It described him as a "career educator" with more than two decades of experience as a teacher, administrator and executive leader. He previously served as superintendent in two districts in Pennsylvania and Missouri.
Roberts worked as superintendent in Iowa despite not having legal status and despite having a “final order of removal and no work authorization,” the ICE news release said.
He had entered the U.S. in 1999 on a student visa, and was given a final order of removal by an immigration judge in May 2024, ICE said.
Roberts had existing weapon possession charges from Feb. 5, 2020, according to the release.
There’s a superintendent of a school a close friend of mine went to that just recently got deported from Iowa
His name is Ian Roberts
Superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools
He was in this position for two years, and handed hundreds of diplomas to graduating students.
Down here is an article, he’s said to have been in possession of weapons, but I still don’t believe we have the full story.
Im by no means an expert or someone that often has had to make a post like this myself, I interact and help where I can as a 17 year old Canadian kid still in studies. But I need people to know, wherever you are, whoever you are, it’s important to speak out and not stay quiet while fascists are deporting real people with human rights in our neighbouring country. It concerns all of us, silence is acceptance. Please educate yourself and call higher ups, call ice, harass them to know more information and don’t sit by idly.
He may have been armed, but he does not deserve to be treated as an “illegal alien” as sited in the article I have linked.
The Department of Homeland Security said that Dr. Ian Roberts, a native of Guyana, was ordered deported in 2024 and that he fled from police
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Uttar Pradesh Police's Inaction on Cyber Fraud Cases
It is most unfortunate that police in the Uttar Pradesh is not solving any cases concerning cyber fraud and now they are running away from providing information to the aggrieved under right to information act 2005.
Mahesh Pratap Singh <[email protected]>
आपके वाद संख्या A-20250400810 की ऑनलाइन सुनवाई हेतु माध्यम/ लिंक है : https://upsic.up.gov.in/cispu/onlinehearing/caa64f उक्त वाद संख्या…
