ICE took a Nigerian illegal immigrant into custody after a public exposure case in Pennsylvania, and officials say he had been canvassing for a Democrat running for Congress.
Breitbart News reported that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Chimaobim Adedayo Igbojekwe following local charges that he exposed himself near a park where residents, including children, were nearby.
Police in East Pennsboro Township, Pennsylvania, arrested him on September 27 on indecent exposure and disorderly conduct charges. ICE took him into federal custody on October 1.
The Department of Homeland Security identified him as a canvasser for Democrat Janelle Stelson, the party’s nominee in Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District, citing local reporting on the incident.
ICE Deputy Director Charles Wall did not say much in a DHS statement on the arrest.
"It’s unbelievable that Janelle Stelson would employ an illegal alien to work on a Congressional campaign, let alone a pervert who exposed himself in public."
Wall tied the case to a broader enforcement push under the current administration.
"Every single day, the men and women of DHS are working hard to target and remove dangerous illegal aliens like this sicko from our communities. The Trump Administration will always put the safety of the American people first."
Stelson’s campaign response is not included in the available public record on the arrest. DHS framed the canvassing link through local coverage rather than a campaign payroll document released with the statement.
DHS laid out a clear immigration timeline. Igbojekwe entered the United States legally in June 2017. His authorized stay expired in November 2019. He remained in the country anyway.
In September 2021, the Biden administration granted him deferred action, a temporary hold that can shield someone from deportation without granting lawful permanent status. The DHS release did not spell out the basis for that grant, or whether the protection was still in force when ICE moved on October 1.
That gap matters. A man who had already outstayed his welcome received a reprieve from the prior administration, then turned up in a Pennsylvania neighborhood on local sex-related charges years later.
The local case moved fast. At a September 30 court proceeding, prosecutors withdrew the indecent exposure charge and one disorderly conduct count.
Igbojekwe pleaded guilty to the remaining disorderly conduct charge, a third-degree misdemeanor, Shore News Network reported from court records.
Those records listed a home address in Aurora, Colorado, and monetary bail of $49,000. The alleged conduct itself happened in a residential area near a park in East Pennsboro Township, not a private setting, and not far from people who live there, including children.
Conservative activist Scott Presler said Igbojekwe had Stelson campaign flyers in his vehicle and questioned why someone listing a Colorado address was out canvassing for a Pennsylvania House race. The reporting paraphrases Presler; it does not include a full verbatim quote from him.
Put the sequence together. Legal entry in 2017. Overstay after 2019. Deferred action in 2021. Local arrest on September 27 for alleged public exposure. A plea to disorderly conduct three days later. ICE custody on October 1.
Federal officials then tied him to paid or volunteer field work for a Democrat seeking a House seat. Wall’s statement treats that campaign role as employment. DHS pointed to local reporting for the canvasser identification. Either way, the optics are plain: a man without lasting legal status was in the field for a major-party nominee before landing in ICE custody after a public indecency case.
Voters in Pennsylvania’s 10th District are entitled to know who is knocking on doors in their name. Taxpayers are entitled to an immigration system that does not leave overstays in place for years, then rediscover them only after local police make an arrest near a park.
Campaigns that cannot, or will not, vet who represents them on the street hand their opponents a simple accountability argument, and hand ICE a case file it should not have needed a neighborhood incident to open.
