Maryland’s Democratic leadership is taking criticism after it took state officials more than two years to remove a prominent illegal immigrant from its voter rolls.Amidst the drama, one GOP lawmaker remarked, "This is exactly why Marylanders have lost faith in our elections."According to the Maryland Freedom Caucus, which consists of conservative lawmakers in the state General Assembly, Ian Andre Roberts, a Guyanese national illegally present in the U.S., was "quietly" removed from Maryland’s voter rolls.
This comes after Roberts was sentenced on May 29 to two years in federal prison and three years of supervised release for possession of a gun as an illegal immigrant and for falsely claiming to be a U.S.citizen on employment paperwork.Fox News Digital reported last September that, despite illegally residing in the U.S., Roberts was working as the superintendent of the Des Moines Public Schools in Iowa.
Maryland Republicans blew the whistle on the fact that he was also registered as an active Democratic voter in Maryland.The Maryland Freedom Caucus posted on X that "9 months after it was discovered that a superintendent of a large school district was not only a noncitizen with a final deportation order, but also had been illicitly registered to vote in Maryland, Ian Roberts has finally - and quietly - been removed from the active voter registration list in our state."ILLEGAL ALIEN ARRESTED BY ICE FOUND REGISTERED AS ACTIVE DEMOCRAT VOTER IN BLUE STATEIan Roberts, former superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, speaks to students at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Des Moines on Oct.21, 2024.
(Jon Lemons/Des Moines Public Schools via AP)The caucus wrote that "Ian Roberts is the perfect symbol of everything wrong with the Maryland State Board of Elections," adding that "it practically took an act of God to get him removed from the rolls."In addition to the 2024 final order of removal against him, Roberts also faced charges in 2020 for second-degree crimina...