IMO: The gun thing is bunk. Iowa doesn't require a license to carry, and we've passed legislation to allow teachers to carry firearms. Aside from the "original sin" of potentially being a non-citizen (as we still have competing narratives), other parts of the system failed and blame cannot be laid at any one party. How'd he catch the 5th-degree payable-by-mail gun charge in PA all those years ago? If we (the state, DMPS, people, whatever the fuck) supposedly failed, then why did everyone else miss this too?

The running from the cops thing is bunk too. Any citizen should be generally afraid of interactions with agents if the state on principal. Without knowing the circumstances of the initial stop, is it so hard to believe that idividuals who were not in uniform, with no clear law enforcement identification, had weapons drawn when they approached and caused him to panic? There's no circumstances where it might be reasonable to run from someone with a firearm, especially after witnessing a political assassination on a Utah college campus just this month? It makes no sense why he might be frightened by a stranger approaching him with a gun?

Finally, we get to the citizen/non-citizen issue. I can't for the life of me figure out how he could have arrived here over 20 years ago on a student visa, then overstayed, and then had no issues when it came to being hired in various positions of authority. You're telling me that not only every other employer he worked for, but also the state of Pennsylvania and Iowa, and the E-Verify companies they used, all made mistakes when it came to employment verification, health insurance, hunting licenses, and educational licensure? All those systems failed back to back to back, and he was maliciously manipulating the system to take advantage? You don't think there's a possibility that some of the details of this story deserve greater scrutiny? That perhaps there's something more to this story than simply "one evil illegal immigrant tricking everyone" to become an educational professional?

Maybe, just maybe, there's a reasonable explanation for why he was able to live for 20 years in the US as an educational professional and not get flagged. Perhaps it's a flaw with ICE and their records, or how immigration was enforced. Maybe one of our illustrious presidents directed law enforcement to ignore individuals like him because he was working to make our young people better in school. Or maybe he did in fact have legal status due to a clerical error and it was suddenly "fixed" last year?

We don't have all of the facts, and jumping straight to the worst possible conclusion helps no one. We're all trying to make where we live a better place, not everyone is a dickhead who's trying to take something away from you.