Posted on 09/29/2025 12:08:41 PM PDT by bitt
News last week shocked Iowans when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the superintendent of the state’s largest school district for being in the country illegally.
Not only was this man here without legal permission, but he also had a rap sheet featuring several previous run-ins with the law, including weapons charges. Yet Ian Andre Roberts managed to land a pretty big gig in the education sector; the school board placed him in charge of molding the minds of future generations of American voters.
And if that's not bad enough, when authorities caught Roberts, he carried both a gun and a knife.
From an ICE press release last week:
"DES MOINES, Iowa — 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. At the time of his arrest, Roberts was working as the Superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools despite being an illegal alien with a final order of removal and no work authorization.
During a targeted enforcement operation on Sept. 26, 2025, officers approached Roberts in his vehicle after identifying himself, but he sped away. Officers later discovered his vehicle abandoned near a wooded area. State Patrol assisted in locating the subject and he was taken into ICE custody.
Roberts has existing weapon possession charges from February 5, 2020. Roberts entered the United States in 1999 on a student visa and was given a final order of removal by an immigration judge in May of 2024."
How is it possible that not a single person working in the Des Moines school district knew Roberts was in the country illegally? I was under the impression that to work with children
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Now it’s being reported that he was a registered democrat.
Everyone on that school board should be fired or removed from office for failure to preform due diligence.
Registered in Maryland.
That is nonsense if you are guessing! And if you aren’t then it deserves a reference link. So, where is it?
would be interesting to his resume’?? Had he been legal, what qualified him for the job??
Who’d of thunk it...
DEI hires can be done just by looking at a photograph.
I couldn’t agree more.
Is having $3000 cash in your car a crime?
Sounds like a job for DOGE to track down these people over schools funded by the US Government.
The chair of the school board was Michelle Obama’s chief of staff.
I pretty sure it’s not a crime, I think the reason the $3000 keeps being brought up is because he might have been planning an escape.
IMO, he probably knew ICE was looking for him, considering he ran from police when pulled over, leaving behind everything.
He knew full well that if ICE ever came around he would likely be deported and was planning on fleeing if he got the chance.
Iowa is a red state but Des Moines is a deep blue city
Was having a fire arm in the school’s car a crime?
AI Overview
Jackie Norris, a former chief of staff to Michelle Obama in 2009, is the current chair of the Des Moines Public Schools Board. She has held various roles in government and community leadership before her election to the school board.
Key details about her career:
Time at the White House: Norris served as Michelle Obama’s chief of staff during the first few months of the Obama administration in 2009 before being succeeded by Susan Sher.
Des Moines School Board: She was elected to the school board in 2021 and currently serves as its chair. In September 2025, she drew attention for comments regarding the arrest of the school district’s superintendent, Ian Roberts.
Other experience: Her career also includes serving as CEO of Goodwill of Central Iowa and working for former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack.
Recent news: As of August 2025, Norris announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Iowa.
“Now it’s being reported that he was a registered democrat.”
A public school bureaucrat registered as a D? Surely you jest!
Read this to learn a little bit more about him.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1971811032235753770.html
It seems that virtually everything in his resume is up for question. He has several birthdates listed. Claimed he was a commissioned officer in the Guyanese (?) military, supervised or participated in security when Elizabeth II visited the nation. Claimed degrees from various universities including his EdD from a ‘school’ that doesn’t require actual attendance.
Had the school board, now headed by someone who worked for Michelle Obama, actually looked for and verified his ‘credentials’ I doubt he’d have been hired. The board’s original reaction to his arrest is revealing—they quoted him asking for ‘radical empathy’ in regarding his situation.
Now that more has come out, his certificate revoked, the board is saying things like, “How were we supposed to know?” Besides indicating to me that the Des Moines School Board isn’t the brightest and best, the guy must be quite the charmer/BS artist.
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