Des
Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts, 54, was
recently arrested. Federal officials say the “educator,” who was pulling down a
cool $286,000 a year, was living and working in the country illegally, despite
holding one of the state’s most prominent and public jobs.
Roberts
was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on September
26th after fleeing a traffic stop and abandoning his district-issued
vehicle. Authorities found him carrying a loaded handgun and thousands of
dollars in cash. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Roberts is a
native of Guyana who overstayed a student visa and was ordered deported by an
immigration judge in May of 2024.
An
ICE Field Office Director Noted, “This should be a wake-up call for our
communities,” adding, “How this illegal alien was hired without work
authorization, a final order of removal, and a prior weapons charge is beyond
comprehension and should alarm the parents of that school district.”
Yet
it appears, in pathetically hyper-tolerant fashion, some in the local community
are rallying around Roberts, the gun-toting illegal alien with a prior
weapons charge and several previous legal entanglements. (Roberts served as
superintendent of Millcreek Township School District in Pennsylvania prior
to making his way to the Hawkeye State. That school district paid out over $403,000 to
resolve complaints tied to administrative decisions Roberts allegedly made
during his tenure there, including a couple for gender discrimination.)
Some
Democrats, such as Jackie
Norris, who oversaw the Des Moines, Iowa School Board for
several years while Roberts ran that city’s public schools, have hastened to
publicly defend Roberts. (Norris is the former chief of staff for former First
Lady Michelle Obama.)
How
is it that progressives/Democrats are suddenly rock-ribbed Second Amendment
advocates in this case? How could anyone believe that unvetted illegal aliens
should be allowed to carry loaded handguns but law-abiding American citizens
with permits to carry should not be allowed to do so? Oh, I see, we are
not permitted to defend ourselves against unvetted illegal aliens
carrying loaded handguns. (Apparently, that is a little-known codicil of The
Great Replacement Theory, which is not a theory but an obvious fact.) In the
fevered minds of the desperately mentally ill and/or permanently power mad
(i.e. Democrats), criminals should have the right to carry guns but
long-time law-abiding citizens definitively should not. Beam me up, Scotty.
(Here’s a link to
this reference for those of you under 60-years-old.)
In
related stories, Democrats want to shut down the United States government if
Republicans don’t commit to spending a trillion dollars on health
care for illegal aliens. And New York City Democratic mayoral
nominee Zohran Mamdani has committed to spending more than $100
million on legal defense services for illegal aliens, taken from
the pockets of American taxpayers. (Does “legal” services for “illegals” even
make sense?)
My
God, wake up Americans! Or this won’t be America much longer.
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