DHS releases full record of Iowa school superintendent Ian Roberts’s police run-ins

Published October 3, 2025 4:19pm ET



The Department of Homeland Security has revealed new details about Ian Roberts, a criminal illegal immigrant from Guyana who lied his way into a job as school district superintendent in Des Moines, Iowa, and was registered to vote in Maryland.

Roberts is now confirmed to have entered the United States in 1994, four years earlier than was previously known. He was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in late September and now faces deportation proceedings.

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