WTF Iowa!?!

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Hawkfan_08*

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No one has answered how he got away with it. Yall are all claiming to be smart.

I don't know, ask the people that let him in here or all the states he was arrested in first or given documents. Or the nationwide firm that recommended him to the school board. Or the school board for not vetting him better. Nobody here is supporting him.
 

SB_SB

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No one has answered how he got away with it. Yall are all claiming to be smart.

What you don't understand about Iowa is (I grew up there), Iowan's love their token black guys. When I was in high school (long long time ago) the most popular person in every class was the one black guy. How can anyone be racist, they're friends with a black person.
 

AFM22

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What you don't understand about Iowa is (I grew up there), Iowan's love their token black guys. When I was in high school (long long time ago) the most popular person in every class was the one black guy. How can anyone be racist, they're friends with a black person.
When you see a black kid on the opponent's basketball team and you know you're fugged.
 

alaskanseminole

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Why do you suspect they refuse to answer this? They behaved the same way when this news broke originally too. They refuse to acknowledge how their ideology fails so routinely.
I'm not from Iowa, but I'm curious how exactly did someone's ideology (assuming the Dems) fail in this circumstance? He entered the country legally. After his work authorization expired, something clearly failed. So what was it? He was in a Red state. The school district's background/employment verification? Immigration enforcement? The voter-registration system? Heck, it could have been all three. But aren't those systems already in place?

I'd actually like to know where the failure occurred and how we fix it, rather than just declaring that someone's political ideology failed.
 
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Scrubby

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I'm not from Iowa, but I'm curious how exactly did someone's ideology (assuming the Dems) fail in this circumstance? He entered the country legally. After his work authorization expired, something clearly failed. So what was it? He was in a Red state. The school district's background/employment verification? Immigration enforcement? The voter-registration system? Heck, it could have been all three. But aren't those systems already in place?

I'd actually like to know where the failure occurred and how we fix it, rather than just declaring that someone's political ideology failed.
Ian Roberts, a Guyana native, led Des Moines Public Schools while living in the country illegally. He had a final removal order from an immigration judge in 2024.

ICE arrested him in September 2025 after he fled a traffic stop in his school-issued vehicle. Agents found a loaded handgun, cash, and a knife.

Public records show he received speeding tickets in Iowa in 2023 and 2024 that listed different Maryland addresses.

Iowa law requires a new resident to get an Iowa license within 30 days. He stayed on a Maryland license instead.

Maryland voter rolls listed him as a registered Democrat after he signed forms under penalty of perjury claiming U.S. citizenship.

Only citizens can legally register and vote.

He later pleaded guilty to falsely claiming citizenship and illegal gun possession, receiving a two-year sentence before expected deportation.

Democrats hand out driver’s licenses and fight voter ID. This is what that system produces. But let's keep going..



The all female democrat schoolboard had zero issues approving of this criminal being in charge of the education of thousanda of children. Democrat policy facilitated every single part of this alien's story from start to finish.
 
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alaskanseminole

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Ian Roberts, a Guyana native, led Des Moines Public Schools while living in the country illegally. He had a final removal order from an immigration judge in 2024.

ICE arrested him in September 2025 after he fled a traffic stop in his school-issued vehicle. Agents found a loaded handgun, cash, and a knife.

Public records show he received speeding tickets in Iowa in 2023 and 2024 that listed different Maryland addresses.

Iowa law requires a new resident to get an Iowa license within 30 days. He stayed on a Maryland license instead.

Maryland voter rolls listed him as a registered Democrat after he signed forms under penalty of perjury claiming U.S. citizenship.

Only citizens can legally register and vote.

He later pleaded guilty to falsely claiming citizenship and illegal gun possession, receiving a two-year sentence before expected deportation.

Democrats hand out driver’s licenses and fight voter ID. This is what that system produces. But let's keep going..



The all female democrat schoolboard had zero issues approving of this criminal being in charge of the education of thousanda of children. Democrat policy facilitated every single part of this alien's story from start to finish.

You've shifted the argument. I asked how someone's ideology failed here. Now you're arguing that "Democrat policy facilitated every single part" of the story. Which pretty much measn you're still not answering my question. You're listing everything Roberts did illegally and then labeling all of it "Democrat policy." The school board hired him in 2023, and yes, there was clearly a failure in the vetting process. He falsely claimed US citizenship on his employment paperwork and the district's third-party screening failed to uncover his immigration status. That's a YUGE failure...but is that policy?

I'll use your one-liner style:

Was it a Democratic policy that required the school district to accept his false citizenship claim?

Was it Democratic policy that prevented them from using E-Verify?

Was it Democratic policy that prevented ICE from acting on his 2024 final removal order?

Was it Democratic policy that caused Maryland to leave him on its voter rolls?

Was it Democratic policy that caused Iowa to allow him to continue driving on a Maryland license?

Or was it simply a guy who repeatedly lied about his status and multiple systems that failed to catch him?

Seems to me this is a story about a liar (who was tried/convicted/sentenced) and incompetence.

I'm perfectly willing to say the school board and its vetting process failed. I'm also perfectly willing to say immigration enforcement failed. But "Democrats facilitated every single part of this from start to finish" is a team jersey-level leap, Scrub. Be better.
 

Scrubby

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You've shifted the argument. I asked how someone's ideology failed here. Now you're arguing that "Democrat policy facilitated every single part" of the story. Which pretty much measn you're still not answering my question. You're listing everything Roberts did illegally and then labeling all of it "Democrat policy." The school board hired him in 2023, and yes, there was clearly a failure in the vetting process. He falsely claimed US citizenship on his employment paperwork and the district's third-party screening failed to uncover his immigration status. That's a YUGE failure...but is that policy?

I'll use your one-liner style:

Was it a Democratic policy that required the school district to accept his false citizenship claim?

Was it Democratic policy that prevented them from using E-Verify?

Was it Democratic policy that prevented ICE from acting on his 2024 final removal order?

Was it Democratic policy that caused Maryland to leave him on its voter rolls?

Was it Democratic policy that caused Iowa to allow him to continue driving on a Maryland license?

Or was it simply a guy who repeatedly lied about his status and multiple systems that failed to catch him?

Seems to me this is a story about a liar (who was tried/convicted/sentenced) and incompetence.

I'm perfectly willing to say the school board and its vetting process failed. I'm also perfectly willing to say immigration enforcement failed. But "Democrats facilitated every single part of this from start to finish" is a team jersey-level leap, Scrub. Be better.
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