Iowa Man, the illegal alien known as Ian Roberts, who was arrested by ICE wielding a gun on the run, but otherwise had been "serving" as superintendent of Des Moines public schools, has more history than originally reported.
According to Fox 45 News::
???? I have confirmed from Maryland Freedom Caucus Chairman, @MattMorgan29A (R) that Des Moines Superintendent Ian Roberts has been a registered voter in Maryland since 2012.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 29, 2025
Roberts is an illegal alien.@elonmusk also agrees, it’s time to clean the voter rolls. pic.twitter.com/4encSIQwfk
Registered to vote?
That suggests some political involvement, possibly with an illegal alien-promoting NGO or a union involved in get-out-the-vote efforts.
Roberts' meteoric rise to Superintendent of Des Moines public schools didn't come about without a lot of politics, particularly teachers' union politics. He not only was in the country illegally, he reportedly faked his highest degree. His scaling to the top had to have involved a lot of DEI and a lot of glad-handing with the ruling leftists and he knew how to do it. He held positions all over the country -- Pennsylvania, etc. -- but it all started in the Washington-Baltimore area.
Somehow, on every job he got, he skirted all vetting -- all "extensive background checks" where every last one of them missed that 'final deportation order' against him as well as what were likely claims to U.S. citizenship on his forms. The Register reported that his claimed doctoral degree was fake, too. The link I found said he got his doctoral degree from Trident University, while the claim the Register debunked held the claim that he had a doctoral degree from Morgan State University, so even his claims looks shifty.
Funny how this academic fraud stuff is coming out after his spectacular flight from an ICE raid.
How many of them in Maryland knew about his status, and that he was illegally voting and had a fake degree, and yet promoted him? It sounds as though he had been connected to a political machine.
He claims his lawyer told him years ago that he was perfectly legal, but that sounds odd given that his final deportation order was issued in 2024.
His official biography on the Des Moines school system makes just passing mention of his time in Baltimore:
This anti-truancy document suggests he had been director of something called the "Twilight Program" for "at risk youth" at Anacostia High School in Washington, D.C., and the document hands out an address of CASA de Maryland, an illegal alien advocacy group that has an aggressive voter registration arm, and which has been partly funded by George Soros's Open Society NGO. (CASA de Maryland has also been associated with illegal alien wife-beater Kilmar Abrego-Garcia.)
Was he connected with this group? Thus far, I don't know, but the possibility exists that he was affiliated with CASA de Maryland or another NGO or labor union when he illegally registered to vote (Anacostia is close enough to live in Maryland), which could have plugged him into politics and even registered him to vote. Or, it could have been another story.
The bottom line here, is that illegals do not have the right to vote, and every illegal vote cast cancels the vote of an American citizen. That means little to Democrats, who have a massive political project to import illegals to replace the electorate.
Who were his enablers in Maryland who got him to register to vote, surely knowing he was here illegally? Who vetted him, again and again and missed his citizenship issues as well as academic record? Those questions implicate a lot more people than just this illegal.
But like the Maryland Man of El Salvador, he, too, has his defenders. That might be a good place to look to uncover the networks that enabled his rise to the top of the Iowa school system, which, once upon a time, had a good reputation.
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