According to the Homeland Security Department, the Superintendent of the State Schools of the State Schools, the largest school in Ajova schools, was detained on Friday morning by immigration agents who said the educator was illegally in the country and had weapons owing taxes.
Superintendent Ian Roberts, an educator with decades of experience, previously competed as an Olympic athlete, was arrested as part of the “targeted enforcement operation” and escaped after the US immigration and customs execution officials, according to him, according to DHS and Aova’s statements.
DHS said he “had a loaded manual weapon, $ 3,000 in cash and a fixed knife knife.” This is a violation of federal law to have a firearm and ammunition if a person has no legal status in the US.
CNN is trying to set Roberts’ lawyer.
The school district and DHS presented very different Roberts portraits. DHS described him as a “criminal alien” and suggested that he was a threat to public security. However, after his arrest, Jackie Norris, chairman of the Board of State Schools at the DES Moines press conference, said the superintendent was “an integral part of our school community”, which “appeared in large and small” students and staff.
The arrest prompted the protest for the Federal Court Chamber des Moines in the city. “Education, not deportation / free Dr. Roberts,” said one sign that the demonstrator wore, writes the footage of the CNN branch KCCI.
According to Norris, the Ajova Education Examination Board issued Roberts license to go to the State Superintendent in the State in 2023. In July
“There is a new information that was made public that we didn’t know and we couldn’t check,” Norris said.
According to the district’s website, Roberts overseen more than 30,000 students in the System of State Schools and previously worked in public schools across the country.
Another administrator, Matt Smith, took the role of a temporary superintendent at the time based on a statement previously published in the district’s social media.
“Our priority is to provide safe, safe and exclusive education for all students and support our students, families and employees,” the report states.
Roberts’s arrest is due to the fact that Trump’s administration continues to deal with immigration with raids on jobs and community pillars, including firefighters, journalist and pastor.
DHS says the superintendent was given the final removal order in 2024.
Roberts entered the United States into a student visa in 1999, and the immigration judge was submitted in the final order in 2024. May, based on DHS statement. The agency added that he had been from 2020. Decreased weapons taxes.
Public records show that Roberts admitted guilty of a weapon tax in Pennsylvania in 2022.
“It should be the awakening of our communities that our officials are doing every day to eliminate the risk of public safety,” ICE said ICE’s implementation and removal operations in St. Sam Olson, director of Paul’s Outdoor Bureau.
The ICE online system of detainees shows that Roberts was born in Gayana and is considered to be in County Prison Council in Bluffs, Ajova.
According to the district’s website, Roberts was announced by a superintendent of public schools in 2023. He was born to “immigrant parents from Guyana and spent most of his formation in Brooklyn, New York,” the site said.
Before becoming an educator, the superintendent was an Olympic athlete and competed in the athletics competition in 2000. At the Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
The long career of Roberts’ education covered positions in New York; Baltimore, Washington, DC; St. LouisIs it Oakland, California; And ERE, Pennsylvania, according to her LinkedIn profile.
The Board of Directors is a non -profit group serving the DES Moines black community – Roberts identified as a board member and offered him his “full support” in the Facebook post.
Roberts was “a reliable partner, a dedicated property defender and an inconsistent supporter of families and youth in Polko County,” the report states. “His contribution to both the Board of Director and the wider community is immeasurable, and we are standing with him at this indefinite moment.”
In a video post published on their Facebook page, the organizers of the Ayowa Migrants said the organizers of the Migrants said the news of the superintendent’s detention was shocking and scary for immigrant communities.
“We know in advance that our families are currently afraid that if they go to take their children if they send them to school, if immigrant agents intend to go from their children from school,” Elizabeth Balcarcel said in a video. “There are many questions, many doubts.”
CNN Catherine Shoichet contributed to this report.
To get more CNN news and newsletters, create an account on cnn.com