An Iowa school district placed its superintendent on unpaid leave on Sept. 29 upon learning his license had been revoked following his arrest for living and working in the country illegally.
The Iowa Board of Educational Examiners revoked Roberts’s license, saying in a letter that he was ineligible to hold the license because “you no longer possess legal presence in the United States.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained Ian Roberts last week. An immigration judge had issued a final removal order for him in May 2024.
Roberts, 54, a native of Guyana who entered the United States on a student visa in 1999, is being held at an Iowa jail….