DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Des Moines public schools chief who's been detained by immigration authorities resigned his position Tuesday while he challenges his looming deportation, his lawyer said.

Former Superintendent Ian Roberts had been under the impression from a prior attorney that his immigration case was “resolved successfully,” said attorney Alfredo Parrish. He said his firm has filed a request for a stay of Roberts' deportation with the federal 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 last detained Roberts last week , saying the Guyana native and former Olympic runner was living and working in the country illegally. A state board stripped Robe

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