Federal immigration brokers have detained the top administrator of Iowa’s capital metropolis public colleges, the varsity board stated Friday.
Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements brokers Friday morning, college board president Jackie Norris stated in a press release.
A spokesperson for the district stated they don’t have further info to share right now.
“We don’t have any confirmed info as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the following potential steps,” Norris stated in her assertion.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data present Roberts of their custody at a county jail in western Iowa.
But a Pottawattamie County jail worker stated he’s not presently at their jail. The jail in Council Bluffs is about 130 miles west of Des Moines.
An worker on the ICE workplace in St. Paul, Minnesota, which oversees operations in Iowa, stated he had no info on Roberts’ arrest.
An electronic mail to ICE’s nationwide media line wasn’t instantly returned, and its telephone rang unanswered.
Additional calls to different regional places of work in Omaha, Nebraska, and Kansas City, Missouri, additionally went unanswered.
Roberts, 52, started his time period as superintendent of Des Moines colleges, which serve 30,000 college students, in July 2023.
A biography for Roberts listed on the district’s web site says he was born to immigrant mother and father from Guyana and spent a lot of his childhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Coppin State University’s web site options an alumni profile of Roberts, who graduated from the varsity in Baltimore in 1998.
In it, Roberts stated his father immigrated to the United States within the Nineteen Eighties, and his mom immigrated within the early 2000s.
