A criminal illegal immigrant has been arrested by ICE after lying about his background and serving as a high school superintendent.

The case has put a spotlight on hiring practices throughout the nation and launched a DOJ investigation.

In this episode, we dig into the details of the case with Civil Liberties attorney Laura Powell and Daily Wire reporter Amanda

Presta Giacomo. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. This is a weekend

edition of Morning Wire. Joining us now to discuss a public school scandal out of Iowa's

Daily Wire reporter Amanda Presta Jocamo. Hey Amanda. So we briefly covered this case this past week.

Quickly, would you set the stage for us? Who is this illegal immigrant? And when was he arrested?

Yeah. So ICE officers arrested 51 year old Ian Andre Roberts on September 26th. And that was part of a

targeted enforcement operation. Roberts, who's from Guyana, he was in the U.S. illegally and had a deportation order from May of

2024, and he also had a prior weapons charge from 2020.

He fled from ICE when he was approached, but was eventually arrested.

And at the time of his arrest, Roberts was illegally in possession of a loaded handgun.

He also had $3,000 in cash and a fixed blade hunting knife.

And of course, the big issue here, why this is so compelling, is that Roberts was serving

as the superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools. He was basically CEO of the school district,

which has more than 30,000 kids in it.

So a lot of responsibility there.

Right.

As I understand, it's the biggest school district in the state.

So we have this past illegal weapons charge, according to ICE.

What else do we know about his background?

Yeah, so we know he entered the U.S. from Guyana back in 1999 on a student visa. He overstayed that visa and he tried to apply for immigration status, but that was unsuccessful.

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