Guyanese educator facing deportation, plans to fight

The Guyana-born educator, arrested by masked ICE agents in Iowa last week, has not only championed a stellar academic career in the U.S. but was on his way to becoming a high-ranking police officer back home before migrating to the U.S. at the close of the 1990s.

- By BERT WILKINSON

Ian Andre Roberts, 54, the public schools superintendent of one of the state's largest districts, remained in an ICE detention facility at the start of the week while his attorneys, state education officials, and agents battled to determine whether he would be deported as suggested by immigration officials.

Family members, including his elder brother, Colin, in Barbados, are adamant that Roberts will win his battle with ICE as “he has never been living illegally in the States. As far as we know, he is a citizen.”

ICE says his visa has long expired.