on September 29, 2025, 17:59:39, in reply to "Tamale vendors? Bacon wrapped hot dog vendors?*"
...Ice officials also said that Roberts “has existing weapon possession charges from February 5, 2020” and he entered the US “in 1999 on a student visa and was given a final order of removal by an immigration judge in May of 2024”...
...The district said on Saturday that “everything the district has on file indicates Dr. Robert [sic] affirmed that he was a citizen who was eligible to work for the school district” and a “comprehensive background check” was completed as part of the hiring process...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/des-moines-school-district-superintendent-ice-arrest
LOOKAT HOW HARD WE IS WORKING OVER BY HERES !!! WE LOOKEDS AT EVERYTHIN', AND HE WAS AS LEGAL AS DUH DAYS IS LONG!!
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For fun:
Progressive groups and lawmakers in Iowa lamented Roberts’s arrest, with Democratic state Rep. Larry McBurney of Des Moines calling it “an outright disgrace” and accusing ICE of treating "our schools … as political battlegrounds for federal overreach."
“The idea of ICE raiding our schools and removing a highly respected leader from our community is a stain on Iowa and on America,” McBurney wrote on Facebook. “It undermines trust, threatens stability, and sends a chilling message to educators and families across the state.”
McBurney later deleted the post.
Also from that article:
The Directors Council, an umbrella group of several nonprofits that serve Des Moines's Black community, said in a statement that “Dr. Roberts has been a trusted partner, a dedicated advocate for equity, and an unwavering supporter of families and youth in Polk County,” adding that his contributions to “the wider community are immeasurable, and we stand with him during this uncertain moment."
And...
According to the Des Moines Register, Roberts made “$305,917 in salary and benefits in the 2024-25 school year.”
Earlier, on Feb. 5, 2020, Roberts was arrested and charged with illegally possessing a weapon. According to ICE, “it is a violation of federal law for those in the U.S. without legal status to possess a firearm and ammunition.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/ice-arrests-des-moines-schools-superintendent-ian-andre-roberts-says-hes-a-criminal-illegal-alien-with-a-prior-weapons-charge-213455233.html
Is that school board an elected body? Just curious.
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