Anyone who has applied for a job, or hired somebody, is familiar with the requirement to fill out an I-9, the official U.S. government form designed to verify the identity and employment authorization of individuals hired in the United States. It’s a significant burden on both employee and employer.

As part of that process, the employee is required by law to produce a document that proves those two attributes; people typically use a passport, a permanent resident (green) card or a Social Security card. The employer has to stipulate that it has reviewed them.

In the wild case of Ian Roberts, until recently the man running the largest school district in Iowa, one of two things must have happened. Either nobody checked and verified those documents or Roberts, who was born in Guyana and firs

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