The Des Moines public schools superintendent who has been detained by immigration authorities submitted his resignation Tuesday while he focuses on challenging his looming deportation, his lawyer said.

Ian Roberts had been under the impression from a prior attorney that his immigration case was "resolved successfully," said attorney Alfredo Parrish. His law firm filed a request to stay Roberts' deportation with an immigration court in Omaha, Nebraska, and was working on another motion to reopen the educator's immigration proceedings.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Roberts last week, saying the Guyana native and former Olympic runner was living and working in the country illegally. A state board stripped Roberts' license to be superintendent .

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