ICE arrested a Nigerian illegal immigrant found exposing himself near children in a Pennsylvania neighborhood, with Homeland Security saying he was canvassing for a Democratic House candidate.
Federal agents took Chimaobim Adedayo Igbojekwe into custody on October 1 after the 35-year-old Nigerian national pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. Local police had arrested him September 27 on indecent exposure and disorderly conduct counts in a residential area.
Daily Caller reporting detailed the Department of Homeland Security statement that agents found Igbojekwe “with his pants off in public, fully exposing himself” in a neighborhood where children were nearby. DHS identified him as an illegal immigrant who had been “working as a canvasser” for Democrat Janelle Stelson, the candidate challenging Republican Rep. Scott Perry in Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District.
That district covers parts of south-central Pennsylvania. The arrest put a hard spotlight on who is knocking on doors in a competitive House race and on years of immigration decisions that left Igbojekwe free to remain.
Igbojekwe entered the United States legally in June 2017. His authorized stay ended in November 2019. He stayed anyway. In September 2021 the Biden administration granted him deferred action, a form of temporary relief that let him remain without a path to permanent status.
Those dates matter. By the time of the exposure incident he had lived in the country illegally for years, protected by a prior administration’s discretionary grant. ICE moved only after the local guilty plea. The sequence tracks the Trump administration’s stated priority of removing illegal immigrants who commit crimes, a posture also seen when ICE rounded up criminal illegal immigrants in Atlanta.
Breitbart added that Igbojekwe had Stelson campaign flyers with him and told officers he was distributing them. Republican election activist Scott Presler posted video on X claiming the man planned to pass out the flyers in the same neighborhood where the exposure occurred.
Stelson’s team rejected any link. Campaign manager Alma Baker issued a flat denial the same week DHS publicized the case.
Baker said:
"This individual is not and has never been employed by the Janelle Stelson campaign. If he is an illegal immigrant who committed a crime he should be deported."
She continued:
"We never heard of him prior to the news of his arrest. We are grateful to law enforcement for acting swiftly to arrest him."
Washington Examiner coverage confirmed the campaign’s position that Igbojekwe had no association with Stelson’s challenge to Perry. The denial leaves an open question about why campaign materials were present and why DHS described him as a canvasser, but the campaign’s public record is clear: no hire, no knowledge, and support for removal if the immigration and criminal facts hold.
Voters in Cumberland, Dauphin, and York counties now weigh a race that suddenly includes an ICE custody case, a guilty plea for disorderly conduct tied to public exposure, and competing claims about campaign work. Perry holds the seat; Stelson is the Democrat trying to flip it.
ICE Deputy Director Charles Wall did not say much about the DHS account of canvassing work.
Wall said:
"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."
He added:
"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."
Just The News reported the same Wall statements and framed the arrest as part of the administration’s focus on illegal immigrants who pose public-safety risks. That enforcement line has drawn Democratic pushback elsewhere, including fights over whether most immigration arrests target people who threaten the public, a claim senators have rejected in recent exchanges such as when Mullin challenged Jayapal’s arrest numbers.
Wall’s language treats the exposure conduct and the immigration status as one enforcement package. DHS released its statement the Wednesday before the October 8 coverage wave. No full criminal docket, specific street address, or independent local police report appeared in the initial accounts, and Igbojekwe’s own response was not recorded.
The core facts that are locked down are straightforward. A man DHS calls an illegal immigrant from Nigeria was found pants-down in a residential neighborhood with children present. He pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. ICE arrested him days later. He entered legally, overstayed, received deferred action under Biden, and was still here when the exposure case began. DHS says he was canvassing for Stelson. The campaign says he never worked for them and should be deported if the illegal-immigrant-plus-crime description is accurate.
That gap between the agency description and the campaign denial is now part of the Pennsylvania 10th District race. Canvassing is door-to-door political work. Putting an illegal immigrant with a fresh public-exposure plea into that role, if the DHS version holds, would be a serious failure of basic vetting. If the campaign version holds, someone still ended up with Stelson flyers in a neighborhood where he exposed himself. Either way, parents and lawful residents are left with the same picture: an overstayer free for years, a lewd public act near kids, and an ICE removal that finally closed the loop.
Large-scale enforcement actions under the current administration have already netted hundreds of illegal immigrants in short windows, including a two-week D.C.-area operation that topped 1,300 arrests. Cases like Igbojekwe’s show why those operations keep targeting people with criminal records rather than treating every overstay as a paperwork dispute.
Democratic leaders have spent years arguing for lighter interior enforcement and broader protections. Deferred action in 2021 kept this man here. The exposure case and the ICE pickup are the downstream result. When Homeland Security and a House campaign offer clashing accounts of the same man’s role, voters get to decide which version matches the incentives they see on the ground. Similar friction has marked other Trump-era DHS fights with progressive Democrats, including when DHS blasted a Squad member’s push to abolish ICE.
American neighborhoods are not audition stages for people who have already ignored the end of their authorized stay. When an illegal immigrant ends up pants-down near children with campaign literature in the mix, the policy failure notes itself.
