By Ted Hesson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. immigration officials on Friday arrested the superintendent of the public schools system in Des Moines, Iowa, acting on what authorities said was a prior deportation order.

The superintendent, Ian Roberts, came from Guyana to the U.S. on a student visa in 1999 and was ordered deported in 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. DHS said Roberts had a 2020 weapons charge but did not provide details.

A legal representative for Roberts could not immediately be reached for comment.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has advanced a wide-ranging immigration crackdown, seeking to drive up arrests of immigration offenders and strip work permits from hundreds of thousands with legal status.

Schools have been a flashpoint ov

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