The Stack: Illegal Superintendent Exposed Broken Voter Rolls And The 0.1 Percent Crime Wave
The saga of Ian Andre Roberts reveals just how fragile our election and immigration systems truly are. Roberts, who served as superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, was not only in the country illegally under a final order of removal—he was later found listed as a registered Democrat voter in Maryland. The case exposes the real risks behind automated DMV voter registration and the Left’s insistence that America’s elections are “the most secure in history.”
Todd walks through how an illegal immigrant with an expired student visa could rise to lead an entire school district while slipping through every supposed safeguard. Then he turns to new data from Sweden, Oakland, and the U.S. Sentencing Commission showing that a tiny 0.1–1% of chronic violent offenders are responsible for a massive share of violent crime.
From election integrity to criminal justice, the patterns are clear: systems fail when accountability is abandoned.
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Maryland Illegal Alien Superintendent Registered as Democratic Voter (CBS Baltimore)
Sweden Persistent Violent Offender Study (National Cohort Study)
U.S. Sentencing Commission Violent Offender Recidivism Report
The Case for Incarceration (Oakland 0.1% Homicide Concentration Data)
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📝 Transcript: Illegal Superintendent Exposed Broken Voter Rolls And The 0.1 Percent Crime Wave
The Todd Huff Show – November 25, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: My friends, have you followed this story, the Ian Andre Roberts story? If you haven't, we're going to talk about this today. Here we are, the week of Thanksgiving. We've had heavy stuff, we've had heavy stuff thrown at us for a long time. That is just what you get when you live in a world where there is a, well, at this particular point in time, most of these things are not about politics.
Todd Huff: We're talking things that are, well, between the lines of good and evil. I mean, this is where a lot of politics has taken us today. I know what's heavy. I know we're at a short week, Thanksgiving week. It's been wild. A wild year, a wild few years. Heck, maybe even a wild decade, dating back to the time Trump came down that escalator announcing his candidacy in what, June or whatever of 2015.
Todd Huff: Anyway, I don't want to say that this is lighter. It is lighter, but it illustrates a larger problem with illegal immigration, with voter registration. And I want to talk about it today. If you've not followed this, you might find this rather interesting. And for those who tell you that we have the most secure elections in the history of humanity, you might want to point them out to, you might want to point this particular story out to them.
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Todd Huff: Okay. So Ian Andre Roberts. Depending upon how much news you consume, what you read, you may or may not have heard of this individual. There was a brief period of time—I think it was in September—that he actually was in the news in a lot of places. In fact, I remember posts, stories on social media, of an individual named Ian Andre Roberts, who was the superintendent of Des Moines schools in Iowa.
Todd Huff: And I remember posts—he was a gentleman who had been arrested for, captured or whatever by ICE to be deported because he was not here legally. And of course, I remember seeing some social media posts talking about: he's a Black individual, he was a superintendent, and the immediate knee-jerk reaction is: Who is ICE going after? Our school superintendents? What in the world are they doing?
Todd Huff: And of course, they targeted him because he's a minority, he's Black—whatever the narrative of the media of the day is. Turns out, though, there's a lot more to this story. You can't make this stuff up, my friend. So let me tell you the story here. So he's from Guyana originally. He entered the United States, it's believed, somewhere around 1999, on a student visa.
Todd Huff: He has worked in multiple U.S. school districts since that time. In fact, he's risen to administrative roles. And he's had over 20 years of experience. Now, in 2023—July of 2023—he was hired to be the superintendent of schools at Des Moines, Iowa. In Des Moines, Iowa, the school district there—Des Moines Public Schools—it’s the largest school district in Iowa.
Todd Huff: At the time he was hired, his immigration issues were not publicly disclosed or apparently known by the board. Now, I want to pause there for a moment. I've been self-employed for some time. I think about 16 years now, doing this program, having another business, which I've shared to you—that's where the Red, White and Blueprint business came from.
Todd Huff: We had another business, some marketing consultation, promotional products, that sort of stuff. Started that in 2009. So here we are, 2025—so 16 years ago. I've been self-employed. And you learn a lot if you're self-employed, if you're a business owner—small business owner especially—and don't have teams of people that do these things for you.
Todd Huff:
You have to learn, oh, in order to hire somebody, I've got to take these steps. And there's a form that one has to fill out. It's called an I-9 form. You may, depending upon when you were hired—or, well, most people, unless they've worked there for over 25 or 30 years—will have filled out an I-9 form.
Todd Huff: Basically, it's supposed to protect us from hiring people who are terrorists and that sort of stuff. It's just another sheet of paper. I don't know what it effectively does. I just know that you have to go through the process of verifying people's identity, which is tied, of course, to some degree, to their legality.
Todd Huff: And so my first question is—as I'm pulling together facts about their hiring of this individual who wasn't even supposed to be here—how do they not know these things? How do they not know these things? Now, he was given a final order of removal.
Todd Huff: The superintendent—DHS, excuse me, DHS, Department of Homeland Security—documents show that he was given a final order of removal issued by at least 2024. His student visa expiration was long before that. His student visa had expired. He was not here legally. He had multiple immigration violations.
Todd Huff: I don't think there's any way possible he should have gotten through the hiring process at Des Moines Public Schools. But he did. And he became the superintendent. For those of you who don't know—and I know most of you do, but we've got people from all different backgrounds and experience levels here—a superintendent.
Todd Huff: Listen, I was a school board member, well, about when this guy entered the country on a student visa. I was a school board member from 2000 until 2004. And the school board oversees the policies, and they really have one hire. Their one hire, the school board makes, is the superintendent of schools.
Todd Huff: The superintendent of schools basically takes direction from the board—at least that's the way it’s supposed to be. There are many instances today where board members take direction from the superintendent and not the other way around. The truth is, though, there should be back and forth.
Todd Huff: There are things that superintendents know and understand that regular, average people who are on the school board need expertise on—from the superintendent or from the school's legal counsel or whatever—but the decision still lies, it should lie, with the board, the school board. But they hire the one employee. That's the superintendent.
Todd Huff: The superintendent then, of course, hires his office staff, and also the principals. And then depending upon the district—but principals are hiring the teachers and all that sort of stuff. But if you look at the structural hierarchy in an organization like a public school, the board of directors is at the top and directly below them is the superintendent.
Todd Huff: He or she is the most highly paid person on staff. In fact, some of these people make incredible amounts of money. I know, I understand, you have to pay people at least somewhat comparably, or it's got to be an attractive package to draw them from the private sector. If they're executives of this level, you’ve got to have packages that attract them.
Todd Huff: But at the same time, some of these compensation plans have become absolutely astonishingly ludicrous, if you ask me. But nonetheless, he was hired for that role. He was hired for that role, but he was not supposed to be here. He was given a final order of removal.
Todd Huff: So in 2024, Iowa media—in the state of Iowa—obtained DHS records. These records in question here, these reports, the paperwork, showed that there was an expired visa. There was a removal order. And of course, it's unclear, as I mentioned earlier, how he passed the background checks and just how he got there to be a leader of an entire school district.
Todd Huff: The largest school district in the state of Iowa. The Des Moines Public School statement was they were unaware of his immigration status at the time of hiring. Mid-2024, pressure was building on this. He left the superintendent—Ian Roberts left the role.
Todd Huff: Reports differed as to whether or not he resigned or he was terminated. There’s, of course, no record provided publicly showing that he was—well, that there’s that—whether or not he's been removed officially from this country or not. So that's what’s happened there. It gets deeper than that, though. It gets deeper than that.
Todd Huff: I'm going to continue. It's not just—it's bad enough that the Des Moines Public School system hired somebody who was illegally here as their superintendent. This, of course, was an individual that the media and people on social media defended as being someone who was inappropriately targeted by Trump.
Todd Huff:
Well, just—let's just sit there for a moment, and I'm going to shift gears to the other part of the story. But why is there an immediate knee-jerk reaction? I've talked about this on the program a lot. I don't necessarily want to be the first person to formulate an opinion on something.
Todd Huff: There are a lot of people out there that take great pleasure in that. “I knew it first. I knew it first.” Okay, well, did you know it right? Did you understand it correctly? Did you come to the right conclusion?
Todd Huff: I always use the example of reporting that was done when the Supreme Court ruling on the Obamacare case came out. And there were people that were sitting out there—they got the Court’s ruling, they flipped through it, and some people told their audience—I was listening to this live—some people told their audience the wrong thing.
Todd Huff: Because there was pressure to get the information out quickly, to be the first to report it. And some people flat-out got it wrong. They misunderstood. And in fairness, it was a very peculiar case. Many people think that Justice John Roberts actually changed his vote from the time they cast the initial ballot until the time the final Court decision was signed and published.
Todd Huff: But the bottom line is they got it wrong. I would rather get it right and not be the first to get it right if it means that I might get it wrong because I'm in a hurry and I'm in a rush. But that's unfortunately not how many people respond and believe things should be decided here.
Todd Huff: In fact, in this country today, if someone does something wrong—if there’s an alleged wrongdoing—many people say, “Well, what's the race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, all these things of the person?” Once I know those, I’ve got 0.2 seconds to decide whether I'm for them or on the other side.
Todd Huff: Which is a preposterous—it’s just preposterous—to deal with things that way. But that's the world we live in. Everything is superficial. We are a skin-deep culture. It is a major, major problem. That's why we don't have thinkers. That's why we have people that get caught up in the narratives and the hashtags.
Todd Huff: And it is maddening to someone who understands—like the majority, the vast majority of people listening to me today understand—that context matters, that nuance matters, that we must understand the details before we formulate an opinion. But that's not how many people see this.
Todd Huff:
They see a Black man who is superintendent of a public school system, and if he's being deported, it has to be because ICE is racist and Trump is racist. And of course, this is just insane because that’s not the case at all as we went through that case.
Todd Huff: Now, there's more to this. There's even more to this, and it involves another state. And it's a state—if you remember Kilmar Abrago Garcia, who was just a Maryland father, just a Maryland man taking care of his family.
Todd Huff: It’s from that state of Maryland. Maryland gets tied up in this mess as well. And instead of it just being a case about illegal immigration, it now has to do with voter registration and the individual here in question: Ian Andre Roberts. So that's where we're going next.
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Todd Huff: Okay. As I mentioned, there's more to this story, and it gets juicier by the minute here. So Maryland voter records listed Ian Andre Roberts—who we’ve been talking about here this morning—as a registered Democrat voter. Now, to go through the facts: Roberts is not a U.S. citizen. He is under a final order of removal. It’s unclear, at least from what I could tell, whether or not he's been deported yet or not.
Todd Huff: Non-citizens—we all know this—supposedly non-citizens cannot legally register to vote, at least federally. We know that some cities, because of things that literally make zero sense, some cities have allowed non-citizens to vote in local elections, which, of course, what could go wrong there? But they're not supposed to be able to vote legally on the national scale.
Todd Huff: Maryland supposedly is initiating an investigation into this, which—again, if you want to know my opinion on this—I think this is an investigation designed to protect Maryland, to tell voters that “this is a one-in-a-bazillion, most improbable thing in the history of voting.” This guy wasn't supposed to be voted—they’ll tell us that we’ve got safeguards in place, they'll tell us this is not a widespread problem.
Todd Huff: They'll tell us there's nothing to worry about, nothing to see here. And they have acknowledged that there was an error. So far, what they've said is it's a potential DMV-linked auto-registration—that’s the Motor Voter process—where you're auto-registered if you have some sort of an encounter with the DMV.
Todd Huff: Which, again, that leads me to other stories out there—which I don't think I have in the stack of stuff today—but I've been looking at these over the past few weeks. Because, for example, here in Indiana, there was a fatality recently, a tragic fatality, of someone in the Indiana National Guard. I think traveling on I-65. It was in Boone County, which is just north and west of Indianapolis.
Todd Huff: And they were struck in an accident, and one of those members of the Indiana National Guard died in the accident. Turns out that the person driving the truck, who had hit the individual, had an illegal license. This is a problem. This happened in Florida; we've talked about that on this program. There’s been a ton of licenses issued by states like California to people who aren't even supposed to be here legally.
Todd Huff:
They're not here legally. It's just a mess on every level. And now there are these auto-registration programs that say if you have some sort of a—what do I want to say?—encounter, but some sort of business transaction with the Department of Motor Vehicles, then you can be registered automatically to vote. But you can see the problem with the logic here.
Todd Huff: Now we have people being registered—at least in this case—who are not legally qualified to vote. Now, so far what we know: there's no evidence that he actually cast ballots. The only evidence is that he was registered. Of course, Maryland is reviewing how the data was entered and which systems failed.
Todd Huff: Folks, I don't know—from the perspective of the Left—if this was a failure. The failure was that this individual has gotten caught. That's the failure. The failure is that this might be much more widespread than we ever—well, some of you might have—but many would not have dreamt that it’d be this possible to have widespread fraud.
Todd Huff: So I'm going to pause there. Take a time-out, my friends. You're listening here to the home of conservative, not bitter, talk. I am your host, Todd Huff—back here, my friends, in just a minute.
Todd Huff:
Welcome back, my friends. That's about—I was thinking during the break—that's about as much, well, that's the end of the story, so to speak. But it’s not the end of the problem, and I'm going to talk about that really quickly, and then I want to shift into some crime and incarceration data.
Todd Huff: That should not surprise anybody as well. This is predictable stuff. But there are some people out there who are utterly confused about who commits crime. Actually, I would say this data I'm about to share with you is going to probably surprise everybody—not necessarily who is committing the violent crime, but to what extent the violent crime is being committed by a very small group of people.
Todd Huff: And I don't mean—I’m talking about individuals. I'm not talking about a group of people; I'm talking about whoever it is that makes up the violent group. A very small percentage of people who commit violent crimes, they're committing them at very high rates. So it's all coming, basically, from the same people who are repeating these acts of violence.
Todd Huff: And I just want to share that because some people were amazed out there today that incarceration actually helps keep crime rates low because the people committing the crimes are not out on the streets able to commit them. I don't know why that would be surprising to anybody, but we want to talk about it.
Todd Huff: Because, again, we've got leftists out there that we encounter in the workforce, in our communities, on Little League sports teams, in our schools, whatever, that need to be made aware of the fact that the data, the science, supports what we all knew—people with brains and cognitive abilities—what we've all known for a long time.
Todd Huff: So that's where we're headed. But I do want to say a few more words about what we found out about this voter registration in Maryland. I'll get to that in a moment. Friends, I know you care about this country, but you can't fight for America if you're not taking care of yourself.
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Todd Huff: Okay. Couple of concluding thoughts before we get into this crime and incarceration—incarceration data that I've referenced. It's amazing to me when you have a debate, a conversation, or a debate with people. You can immediately find out—or pretty quickly you can find out—if they're committed to uncovering and realizing truth, or if they are an apologist for their political party.
Todd Huff: You can find this out very quickly. Some people, they look at the list of issues for the day, they look down the list and say, “Here’s what my party says and believes, and I'm going to toe the line. I’m not going to criticize. If someone says something the opposite of these issues, I'm going to dig my heels in, and I'm not going to budge.”
Todd Huff: Because apparently—I think some people think—if the party's wrong on one thing, if my ideology is wrong in one area, it completely collapses. That doesn't necessarily follow. It depends if it's a fundamental, foundational component of your ideology or if it's something that you've drawn a conclusion to.
Todd Huff: You can make wrong conclusions, and I think we should all be interested in hearing and receiving truth. That's the mission, by the way, of this program. And I know—listen, I know it's tempting. You think, “Hey, this guy, they've got it all together over there at The Todd Huff Show. They know what's going on.”
Todd Huff: I know it's easy to think that, but we don’t, my friends, we don't have it all figured out. But I understand why you think we do. But the truth is, when we come to the realization—or it's been revealed to us, a truth has been revealed to us—we better hang onto that.
Todd Huff: It turns out it's much better to live in harmony with truth than it is to try to fight truth. And there are truths, some truths, that are very—I don't know—fulfilling and very freeing to come to the realization of. There are other truths that are mildly terrifying when you think about who the political opponents are and what they want to accomplish.
Todd Huff: How much they hate liberty and all that sort of stuff. When you look at how bad this world is, how bad human nature can be. That's a real gut punch to many people—to think that humanity can do some of the atrocious things that it has done.
Todd Huff: For example, you hear people talk about climate change and how it's going to be killing all these people. I think this whole thing is ludicrous. I think that there's a lot of emotion there. They want to blame humanity for this so that government can come in and grow and tax people.
Todd Huff: And take away choices, and redistribute wealth, and all of that. But let's face it—even if their predictions are true—if you compare the evils of humanity to what they say the evils of climate change are, these things are nowhere near comparable to one another.
Todd Huff: Humanity has been its greatest enemy. Humanity has committed unspeakable evil. And the truth is, as fallen creatures who have turned our backs, thumbed our nose, done much worse to the Creator of this universe, we're capable of bad things.
Todd Huff: And so truth matters, whether we're understanding the truth of some of the aspirational things of humanity and some of the ideas we have in place here in this country—some of the blessings we have been given here in this country—all of that. But also the bad things.
Todd Huff: Coming to realization, coming into alignment with the way things are, and then doing our best to have a positive impact on society so that society chooses to do the things that are aligned with freedom, aligned with faith, aligned with integrity and morality, instead of heading down this path of absolute moral depravity.
Todd Huff: And that's where the Left has taken us. And they're prepared—not only is their worldview and ideology absolutely and utterly morally bankrupt—they’re prepared to do whatever it takes. This is the Seinfeld–Newman strategy: whatever it takes, as long as it takes them—as long as it takes Trump away from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House.
Todd Huff: But also as long as it takes anybody in their path out of political power so that they can achieve more power, more control. You get less liberty, higher taxes. That's what these folks are prepared to do. And listen, why people are in favor of some of these policies that allow this example—of this individual being able to register, be auto-registered to vote in Maryland as someone who should not be allowed to register to vote.
Todd Huff: Why we are making this just ridiculously simple—so simple, in fact, that it becomes rife with opportunities for dramatic fraud to take place—is beyond me. And of course, if you talk about election integrity, you have one side who says conservatives, Republicans are trying to silence certain voters, not give them the right to vote.
Todd Huff: Yeah, I am trying to silence certain voters. You know which voters I'm trying to silence? The voters who shouldn't be voting. Those are the ones I want to silence. Those ballots—we’re never going to get to zero ballots that are cast illegally, but we want to drive it down as much as possible to legal ballots.
Todd Huff:
In fact, I did today's Todd Talk on a similar topic, something that Eric Swalwell—who's running for governor of California, currently a lunatic leftist congressman from the People’s Republic of California—said. But of course, reasonable people would say, “We want voting to be as easy as possible, as efficient as possible, without becoming a burden to the people.”
Todd Huff: While ensuring that we have elections that are safe and secure, that prevent as much fraud and registering of people that shouldn't be voting—like Ian Andre Roberts apparently was in the state of Maryland. Reasonable people understand you need a voter identification. You need some sort of physical ID when you cast a ballot to be able to do so.
Todd Huff: The Left fights against this stuff at each and every step. They want automatic registrations. They want ballots going out in the mail all over the place. They don't want you to have to provide a voter ID. They don't want to clean voter rolls.
Todd Huff: Because, my friends, I think when the dust settles, we will find that they have abused this in ways that will be astonishing once we get an idea of just the level of this particular depravity.
Todd Huff: And I'm at the end of this segment. I do want to shift in the next segment and talk about what I mentioned earlier, which is crime and incarceration data that has shocked people on the Left—and that, of course, should not shock us.
Todd Huff: This is in perfect alignment with what a reasonable person would have concluded—maybe not the numbers and the percentages or the proportion, I should say, of just how small the truly violent criminal aspect is here in our country, but how much they repeatedly commit violent crimes.
Todd Huff: We'll get to that after the break, my friend. Sit tight—listening to the home of conservative, not bitter talk. I am your host, the one and only Todd Huff. Back here in just a minute.
Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends, here to the Full Sweet Wealth Studios on this very short Thanksgiving week. In fact, tomorrow—tomorrow is, I probably shouldn't have my favorite episode of the year, but I do. I do have my favorite episode of the year.
Todd Huff: And it is tomorrow. We’ll be carrying on the tradition that was started by the late, great Rush Limbaugh, telling the true story of Thanksgiving. I love it. I love it. I just look forward to it. I enjoyed hearing it as a member of his audience all those years ago, and I look forward to sharing it.
Todd Huff: To share the story, but also to remember his legacy and how much he impacted the conservative movement. So I'm looking forward to that. I hope you will join us for that. I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving as well.
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Todd Huff: Okay. And the time I have remaining here, we're going to talk about crime and incarceration data, which has shocked the radical Left. So Sweden did a national study, and this stuff is all posted on our website if you want to dig in deep. Obviously I can't get into it, but they studied individuals born in Sweden between 1958 and 1980.
Todd Huff: The total population was roughly 2.4 million people. And they looked at the time period of convictions dating from 1973 until 2004. So this is a long survey—looking at a generation of people who had been convicted of crimes in Sweden. They found that persistent violent offenders—these were individuals with three or more violent crimes—constituted 24,342 people out of the 2.4 million.
Todd Huff: That means that about 1% of the total population was represented by persistent offenders. That 1%—let this sink in—that 1% accounted for 63.2% of all violent crime convictions in this dataset.
Todd Huff: Those with eleven or more violent crime convictions represented 0.1% of the overall population. They accounted for roughly 20% of all violent crime convictions. Forget about the 80/20 rule—this is the 0.1%/20% rule.
Todd Huff: So you've got 0.1% of the population committing 20% of the violent crime convictions in Sweden, which is absolutely incredible. Oakland, California—studies here report analyzing the 2019 Oakland crime data. They focused on homicide offenders. They used local law enforcement and prosecutorial data.
Todd Huff: What they found was, again, 0.1% of Oakland's population committed the majority of homicides in the period referenced. So again, that's over half of murders—of homicides. 0.1% of Oakland’s population committed the majority, more than half, of all homicides. Unbelievable.
Todd Huff:
This indicates that there is an extreme concentration of violence within a tiny group of individuals who have become chronic offenders. U.S. federal violent offender recidivism—this was a U.S. Sentencing Commission report—examined federal violent offenders released back in 2010.
Todd Huff:
63% of released federal violent offenders were rearrested for either a new offense or a supervision violation. That was over an eight-year period. It's over eight years. People who were released for violent crime in 2010—almost two-thirds of them were rearrested within an eight-year period of time.
Todd Huff: I mean, I can go through—there's more data here—but the bottom line here is this: Right now, one of the many, many issues vying for our attention in this nation is how we deal with violent crime. You have one group of people who want to excuse it.
Todd Huff: You have one group of people who want to say that we're all collectively responsible for the choices of everybody else, but we're not individually responsible for ourselves.
Todd Huff: This is the radical Left, by the way. They build policy on this. They want to make excuses. They want to basically never hold people accountable for their violent actions—or they rarely do.
Todd Huff: And then you have another side—people like me, and I think the vast majority of you—who want criminals to face the consequences of their actions. I don't want certain crimes that are administrative to have the book thrown at them, but folks, violent offenders—violent offenders should absolutely be dealing with serious consequences.
Todd Huff: The data now even supports that, in addition to common sense. But I've got to go. Talk to you tomorrow. SDG.
