Blue state in hot seat for taking more than 2 years to remove criminal illegal alien from voter roll

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."

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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 criminal possession of a weapon and other weapons charges, as well as a 2022 conviction for unlawful possession of a loaded gun in Pennsylvania. He was arrested by ICE last September. Agents arrested Roberts after he attempted to run and was found hiding in the brush. The vehicle Roberts was driving contained $3,000 in cash, a fixed-blade hunting knife and a loaded Glock 19 handgun, ICE said.

Republican state Delegate Matt Morgan, who is chair of the Maryland House Freedom Caucus, told Fox News Digital that Roberts’ case "is exactly why Marylanders have lost faith in our elections."

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"The fact that it took this long for the state to remove him proves what we’ve been saying: the system is broken, and one-party Democrat control in Annapolis [the Maryland state capital] has zero interest in basic safeguards," he said.

The Maryland State Board of Elections previously said Roberts did not vote in elections. However, when Roberts’ case first surfaced last year, Morgan said that the illegal immigrant’s registration meant that he was eligible to vote in all federal, state and local elections despite not being a U.S. citizen, and also despite likely not having lived in Maryland for the past decade.

Morgan asserted that "this isn’t incompetence" but instead "the predictable result of sanctuary policies and willful neglect of election integrity."

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"I demand full audits, real cooperation with federal authorities, and immediate reforms so citizens can once again trust our elections," said Morgan, adding, "Anything less is unacceptable."

Fox News Digital reached out to the Maryland State Board of Elections for comment, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.