Iowa revokes license of schools superintendent arrested by ICE, saying he is in US illegally

[ThatRobGuy]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/us/iowa-superintendent-ian-roberts-licence-revoked

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts arrested by ICE

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 Friday.

www.desmoinesregister.com

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Roberts on Friday, saying that he was subject to a final removal order that a judge issued in May 2024. Roberts is a native of Guyana who entered the United States on a student visa in 1999, according to ICE. He’s being held at an Iowa jail.

ICE said that Roberts fled after a traffic stop in Des Moines, and that he was apprehended with the assistance of the Iowa State Patrol. The agency said that Roberts, 54, had possessed a loaded handgun in his district-issued vehicle, a hunting knife and $3,000 cash when arrested.

According to the official ICE report, he also had a prior weapons charge from a few years back (as it's against the law for someone who's in the US illegally to be in possession of a loaded firearm)

ICE arrests criminal alien serving as Des Moines Public Schools superintendent; prior weapons charges and in possession of loaded handgun at time of arrest

Today, ICE Des Moines arrested Ian Andre Roberts, a criminal illegal alien from Guyana in possession of a loaded handgun, $3,000 in cash and a fixed blade hunting knife.

www.ice.gov

I provided 3 sources, CNN, ICE, and an Iowa local publication (in hopes to make it a "balanced" cross section of narratives on this story)

 

[BCP1928]

Looks like ICE has lined up a new job for Ryan Walters.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

Looks like ICE has lined up a new job for Ryan Walters.

I had to look up who that was...

Although, if I may say...remember that semantic overload issue I was talking about in the other thread? About how superficially benign or purported "good" sounding slogans/names are chosen to conceal a bunch of other ideological baggage bundled in with it?

This Walters guy leading an org called the "Teacher Freedom Alliance" would be a prime example of that.

Walters, 40, said Wednesday night on Fox News that he is stepping down as state superintendent of public instruction to become the CEO of the Teacher Freedom Alliance, a nonprofit that says it assists educators “in their mission to develop free, moral, and upright American citizens.”

“We're going to destroy the teachers unions,” Walters said on Fox.

Seems like this Walters guy cares about "Teacher Freedom" so long as it's not the freedom to unionize or teach anything that would agitate conservative religious sensibilities.

But I digress...