{"id":97204,"date":"2025-10-08T00:45:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/it-definitely-looks-like-i-was-wrong-about-the-iowa-school-superintendent-arrested-by-ice\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T00:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:46:28","slug":"it-definitely-looks-like-i-was-wrong-about-the-iowa-school-superintendent-arrested-by-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/it-definitely-looks-like-i-was-wrong-about-the-iowa-school-superintendent-arrested-by-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"It Definitely Looks Like I Was Wrong About The Iowa School Superintendent Arrested By ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from the but-what-will-ICE-learn-from-this<\/i> dept<\/h3>\n

Quite a bit has occurred since final week when my post about Des Moines (IA) school superintendent Ian Roberts being arrested by ICE<\/a> first hit the entrance web page right here at Techdirt. Lots of new data has come to mild, virtually all of it obtained by Des Moines Register journalists<\/a>, which signifies the arrested man could not have been the person he pretended to be (a authorized migrant with solely the slightest quantity of earlier authorized troubles). <\/p>\n

He very a lot seemed to be the particular person others thought he was, although. And whereas that\u2019s one thing, it\u2019s definitely not sufficient to make a bunch of previous felony prices and a few discrepancies on his academic historical past fully irrelevant. Roberts doesn\u2019t seem like a con artist and really appears to have been a really well-liked and revered faculty administrator. However that doesn\u2019t excuse the route he took to get there. <\/p>\n

It additionally doesn\u2019t excuse any of the incorrect assumptions I made in my authentic submit. I don\u2019t take pleasure in being incorrect and I don\u2019t exit of my solution to make careless errors, however typically it occurs. And for that, I apologize. Readers belief this web site to offer them with details and clever evaluation. My submit didn\u2019t have sufficient of both.<\/p>\n

My assumptions had been the issue right here. The submit itself is linked to a number of sources and incorporates a variety of direct quotes from folks about Ian Roberts, in addition to ICE\u2019s personal press launch concerning the arrest. I drew the conclusion that the mugshot launched by ICE couldn\u2019t presumably be the identical particular person ICE arrested, but it surely\u2019s undoubtedly attainable that I received that incorrect. <\/p>\n

I additionally urged ICE\u2019s timeline by way of felony prices and immigration incidents didn\u2019t line up with the details. It nonetheless appears to be off, however that very nicely might be as a result of Ian Roberts\u2019 bio (no less than as introduced to colleges he attended, in addition to these hiring him in Des Moines) might need some factual holes of its personal. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll run down the recent findings<\/a> by Des Moines journalists so you may weigh that towards the assertions and assumptions I made in my submit. However I need to level out that a variety of that is drawn from the DHS\u2019s launch of Roberts\u2019 felony report, a few of which has but to be independently verified. (I\u2019ll additionally level out the apparent: that is hardly the type of rap sheet that ought to end in somebody being referred to as the \u201cworst of the worst\u201d and who ought to \u201cby no means have been in a position to work round kids,\u201d as DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin claims in the DHS press release<\/a>.) <\/p>\n