DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Federal immigration brokers have detained the pinnacle administrator of Iowa’s capital metropolis public faculties, the college board stated Friday.
Des Moines Public Colleges Superintendent Ian Roberts was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements brokers Friday morning, college board president Jackie Norris stated in an announcement. A spokesperson for the district stated they don’t have extra info to share at the moment.
“We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next 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. However a Pottawattamie County jail worker stated he’s not at the moment at their jail. The jail in Council Bluffs is about 130 miles west of Des Moines.
Roberts, 52, started his time period as superintendent of Des Moines faculties, 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 dad and mom from Guyana and spent a lot of his childhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Coppin State College’s web site options an alumni profile of Roberts, who graduated from the college in Baltimore in 1998. In it, Roberts stated his father immigrated to the US within the Nineteen Eighties, and his mom immigrated within the early 2000s.
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