Former Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Andre Roberts, a citizen of Guyana who illegally lived and worked in the United States for over two decades, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for falsely claiming to be a citizen on official employment forms and illegally possessing multiple firearms while unauthorized to even be here.
After serving his sentence, with credit for roughly eight months already spent in custody, Roberts will be immediately turned over to ICE and deported back to Guyana.
The illegal alien ran Iowa’s largest school district, serving 30,000 students, from July 2023 until his ICE arrest on September 26 of last year.
Before that, Roberts was superintendent of the Millcreek Township School District in Erie, Pennsylvania, the second largest in Erie County, overseeing thousands more American children.
Roberts entered the U.S. in 1999 on a student visa, which expired in 2004.
NBC News reports:
Roberts became the first Black educator to helm Des Moines Public Schools when he was hired in 2023 to lead the district of about 30,000 students.
After submitting a Social Security card and a driver’s license as verifying documents, Roberts stated he was a U.S. citizen in his application to the state board of educational examiners, which issued him a professional administrator license in 2023, the district said.
Before the sentencing, Roberts’ lawyers confirmed that was not true.
“Dr. Roberts made a fatal mistake when he completed an I-9 to work with Des Moines Public Schools … falsely affirming he was a United States citizen,” his lawyers wrote in a 173-page brief to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
When agents went to arrest him, Roberts attempted to flee.
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