On Oct. 2, Ian Roberts was taken into custody by the U.S. Department of Justice and was removed from the Sioux City jail.

Iowa has formally revoked the license of the Des Moines schools superintendent who was picked up by ICE and switched his status from paid to unpaid leave.

Ian Roberts, who is challenging the order to deport him to his native Guyana, remained jailed Wednesday in Sioux City, about 150 miles north of Des Moines.