ICE took a Nigerian overstayer into custody after a Pennsylvania public-exposure case and a claimed link to a Democrat congressional campaign, a connection the candidate’s team denies.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Chimaobim Adedayo Igbojekwe on October 1 after local police charged him with exposing himself in a residential neighborhood near a park in East Pennsboro Township, Pennsylvania. DHS identified the Nigerian national as a canvasser for Democrat congressional candidate Janelle Stelson in the state’s 10th District, citing local reporting, and Breitbart News reported the agency’s statement on the case.

Residents, including children, were nearby when the alleged exposure occurred, according to the account tied to the local charges. The sequence moved fast from a September 27 arrest to a guilty plea days later, then federal custody.

Igbojekwe, 35, entered the United States legally in June 2017. His authorized stay expired in November 2019, and he remained in the country. The Biden administration granted him deferred action in September 2021. DHS did not specify the basis for that grant or whether it was still in effect when ICE moved in.

Local charges narrowed before ICE stepped in

Police arrested him September 27 on one count of indecent exposure and two counts of disorderly conduct. At a September 30 court proceeding, prosecutors withdrew the indecent exposure charge and one disorderly conduct count. He pleaded guilty to the remaining disorderly conduct charge, a third-degree misdemeanor.

Just the News reported the same core timeline: lawful admission in 2017, illegal presence after 2019, deferred action in 2021, and the ICE arrest after the public-exposure case. Court records listed an Aurora, Colorado, home address and monetary bail of $49,000.

That Colorado address raised an obvious question about door-knocking work in central Pennsylvania. Conservative activist Scott Presler said Igbojekwe had Stelson campaign flyers in his vehicle and asked why someone listing a Colorado address was canvassing for her race.

Cases like this sit in a wider pattern of enforcement actions against illegal immigrants who commit local crimes, including an illegal immigrant arrested in Texas on alleged child sexual assault charges after landing on a most-wanted list.

ICE leadership calls out the campaign link

ICE Deputy Director Charles Wall did not say much about the alleged campaign role.

"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 arrest to a broader enforcement push.

"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."

Those statements frame the case as more than a single local plea. They put the focus on who was knocking doors, under what status, and after what conduct near a park where families live.

Similar accountability questions have followed other ICE actions, including when agents arrested a California assemblywoman’s staffer after a long visa overstay.

Stelson campaign rejects any tie

Stelson’s campaign pushed back hard. The Washington Examiner reported that the campaign denied Wednesday that the man who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after the alleged public exposure was associated with her operation, and said it had no prior knowledge of him.

That denial sits against DHS’s canvasser identification, Wall’s employment claim, and Presler’s account of campaign flyers in the vehicle. The record does not include a full employment contract, payroll record, or direct quote from Stelson herself resolving the dispute. What it does show is a clear clash: federal officials and local reporting describe a canvassing link; the campaign says there was none.

Voters in Pennsylvania’s 10th District are left with the undisputed parts. A man who overstayed after 2019 faced local exposure-related charges near a park. He pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. ICE took him into custody. And a Democrat nominee’s campaign is now answering for whether he ever worked its doors.

Enforcement stories keep landing in the same place when status failures meet local crime, as when an illegal immigrant faced murder charges in California after a fatal stabbing that followed a judge’s release decision.

Status gaps and public safety

The immigration timeline is straightforward on the facts DHS put out. Legal entry in 2017. Expired authorization in 2019. Continued presence. Deferred action in 2021 under the prior administration. Then a 2025 local arrest, a narrowed plea, and ICE custody in early October.

What remains unclear is the precise basis for that 2021 deferred action and whether it still applied on October 1. The DHS release did not close those points. Prosecutors’ decision to drop the indecent exposure count also leaves the public record thinner than the original charging sheet, even as the disorderly-conduct plea and the federal arrest stand.

Communities do not need a seminar on immigration statutes to understand the sequence. An overstayer ends up in a residential area near a park. Police file charges. A court cleans up the docket. ICE removes him from the street. Campaign officials then argue over whether he ever carried their literature.

Other recent cases show the same enforcement lane, including when ICE arrested a Bahamian national with a violent record in a separate illegal-voting case.

Wall’s language was blunt because the conduct and the status problem arrived together. Public exposure charges near families, a guilty plea, an expired stay, and a disputed role on a congressional campaign are not abstract policy debates. They are concrete failures of screening, supervision, and basic judgment about who represents a candidate to voters.

Taxpayers and lawful residents carry the risk when people who should not be here keep showing up in local crime dockets. Door-knocking for a House race does not erase an expired stay or a disorderly-conduct plea after an alleged exposure incident. Federal officers did the job local charges started. The campaign can deny a payroll link. It cannot erase the arrest record or the status history DHS put on the table.

When campaigns cut corners on who walks neighborhoods, and when prior policies leave overstayers in place for years, families near the park pay first, and ICE has to clean it up after the fact.