ICE arrested Ho-Yin Mo, a field representative for California Assemblywoman Catherine Stefani and former news anchor, at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on Thursday.
Homeland Security told The Daily Mail that he is an illegal alien from Hong Kong who entered the country legally on a temporary basis on January 13, 2020, and failed to leave by May 15, 2020.
“Work authorization or a pending application do NOT confer legal status in the United States,” DHS said.
A source told the Daily Mail that Mo is being held at the Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump and is expected to stay in custody through removal proceedings.
Under Joe Biden, illegal aliens were free to fly around the country without fear of being picked up and deported. That has changed under President Donald Trump.
“DHS reversed the horrendous Biden-era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country,” the department said. “Under President Trump, DHS will no longer tolerate this. This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport.”
Mo was a news anchor and reporter at KTSF Channel 26, the Chinese-language station in San Francisco. He also worked on Asian American outreach for then-Mayor London Breed’s failed 2024 re-election campaign.
Breed’s spokesman Joe Arellano said at the time, “When we heard that Mo was available, we jumped at the opportunity to hire him, because we know that his profile on KTSF really resonates with a lot of individuals, and his background and his experience.”
According to his LinkedIn, Mo joined Stefani’s office in 2025.
Stefani represents the 19th Assembly District, western San Francisco and northern San Mateo County. She sat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2018 to 2024.
Last October, Stefani attacked a Bay Area ICE operation in the San Francisco Chronicle.
“It is about fear and control,” she said. “We must remain peaceful, united and vigilant. This administration wants chaos. We will answer with strength, solidarity and resolve.”
Her office did not answer a request for comment about Mo’s arrest from the New York Post.
Stefani’s District director Frankie Falzon told the Daily Mail they had been “advised by legal counsel that it would not be in his interest to talk at this time.”
“We are just a few days into this. We’re trying to work through as many channels as possible now. That could change at some point.”
“SNAP benefits should go to Americans, not fraudsters or illegal immigrants,” White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud Executive Director Scott Brady said.
The Trump administration has stopped more than $5.8 billion in SNAP fraud since taking office, and its latest sweep just hit New York City, where hundreds of undercover investigations led to enforcement action against 170 retailers across all five boroughs.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced “Operation SNAP Back” on Friday as part of a broader push against retailer fraud in the nearly $100 billion Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
“This is just the latest action in the Trump Administration’s fight against fraud. The message is clear, if you accept any portion of an annual $100 billion taxpayer program, you must follow the rules or face the consequences,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said. “We owe it to every American taxpayer to safeguard their hard-earned dollars, and these latest enforcement actions are just a small part of the Food and Nutrition Administration’s efforts to remove criminals and bad actors from food stamps.”
The cases involve SNAP trafficking, where benefits are exchanged for cash, along with retailers accused of allowing benefits to be used for alcohol and other ineligible non-food items. USDA says penalties can range from temporary suspension to permanent disqualification and monetary fines. Several cases were also referred to the USDA Office of Inspector General for possible criminal investigation and prosecution.
Investigators used undercover purchases at stores suspected of violating SNAP rules. Some retailers were caught exchanging benefits for cash, while others allegedly processed transactions for prohibited products.
“SNAP benefits should go to Americans, not fraudsters or illegal immigrants,” White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud Executive Director Scott Brady said. “And thanks to Secretary Rollins, such waste and abuse will stop.”
The USDA release does not say that the enforcement actions against the 170 retailers involved immigration offenses. The announced violations center on retailer trafficking and purchases of ineligible products.
USDA says the New York sweep is part of a much larger fraud crackdown. Since the beginning of the Trump administration, the department says it has disqualified or suspended nearly 6,000 retailers and disabled or blocked more than 2,000 illegal point-of-sale devices.
New York follows earlier enforcement actions. USDA announced enforcement proceedings against 19 SNAP retailers in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus in June after a joint operation with Ohio investigators.A month later, federal investigators executed warrants in Los Angeles, and USDA sent formal charge letters to 33 SNAP retailers accused of trafficking benefits or selling prohibited items such as alcohol and tobacco.
For the New York stores, USDA’s announcement is the beginning of the enforcement process for some of the retailers, not a declaration that all 170 have been criminally convicted. Administrative sanctions can still mean permanent removal from SNAP, while the cases sent to the inspector general could go considerably further.
Venezuela is nearing a deal to move $4 billion (£2.9 billion) in gold from the Bank of England to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York after a years-long legal tussle, it has been reported.
Led by acting president Delcy Rodriguez, the government and the opposition reached a rare consensus in August - to work together to recover 31 tonnes of precious metal locked away in London’s underground vaults.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Interim President would gain legal control over the bullion, but would not be unable to sell it immediately, the Financial Times reported.
“The gold is going to the US but Delcy won’t have direct access to it,” said an opposition figure reportedly involved in the ongoing negotiations . “It will be supervised and restricted.”
Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez has been involved in the deal
The World Bank previously estimated that the damage of what has been described as the biggest natural disaster in decades amounts to $19.6 billion (£14.4 billion).
If finalised, the deal would bring an end to a major dispute, which has lasted almost eight years, after Britain refused to recognise Nicolas Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela, claiming the 2018 elections were rigged.
In practice, the move blocked the Venezuelan government’s access to the gold.
Venezuela suffered widespread damage when it was hit by earthquakes earlier this year
The bullion has since been the subject of a prolonged legal dispute in UK courts, and has not been released despite Maduro's capture by the US in January.
The UK Foreign Office said the government is not a party in the legal case to determine who should have control of the reserve.
“The matter is being considered through independent legal processes and is not a decision that HMG can direct or influence,” a spokesperson said. “UK Courts and the Bank of England are independent of HMG.
“The UK maintains its longstanding position of support for a democratic transition of power in Venezuela which reflects the will of the Venezuelan people.”
People walk past the Bank of England building in London
Meanwhile, the Bank of England said it is not in a position to act on instructions until there is a further order from the UK Court, which would make clear who has legal authority over the reserve.
“This requires the parties involved in the case to approach the UK Court to settle the dispute,” it added.
Reports of the deal come as Donald Trump is making plans for a first-ever meeting with Rodriguez, as early as next week, sources familiar with the discussions told Axios.
It is unclear if the deal will be discussed, if the meeting between the two leaders takes place.
“Iran is tough, but Venezuela is without a doubt the president's top success and Delcy is a key to that," a Trump adviser cited by Axios said. “Unless something goes really wrong, the president wants to make time.”
Virginia’s Senate majority leader just managed to turn a “I voted” flex into an election-law headache.
Scott Surovell posted a ballot-style graphic while early voting is underway, and the Republican listed in Virginia’s 8th District wasn’t Tony Sabio — it was a mash-up with Senate nominee Bert Mizusawa’s last name.
So, you know, a MASSIVE mistake.
Sabio is now asking the Virginia Department of Elections to look at whether the image violated state rules on unofficial sample ballots, which require a clear “SAMPLE BALLOT” label and treat internet graphics as political ads. Surovell later pulled the post from X, but the questions remain: sloppy graphics, bad AI, or something state officials should actually review before more voters see the wrong name on something that looks official.
Post continues:
... incorrectly identifies me as “Tony A. Mizusawa” instead of Tony A. Sabio, the Republican candidate for Congress in #VA08.
Virginia Code §24.2-622 specifically regulates unofficial sample ballots, including those published on the Internet.
The law says they must: • Not be printed on white paper • Clearly state “SAMPLE BALLOT” in at least 24-point type • Be treated as political advertisements under Virginia law
I don’t see “SAMPLE BALLOT” anywhere on this image. Instead, the accompanying post describes it as “My ballot.”
Virginia law also requires the names of candidates appearing on official ballots to comply with state ballot requirements. I’m not going to speculate about whether this was intentional, an AI-generated image, or simply a serious mistake. That’s exactly why the Virginia Department of Elections should review it.
Election integrity isn’t Republican or Democrat.When a senior elected official publishes ballot-style election material during voting, Virginians deserve to know that the information is accurate and that Virginia’s election laws are being followed.Transparency builds trust. This deserves an official review.
He deleted the original post — luckily people were good enough to grab a screenshot.
Not a great look for a guy who pushed to rob millions of Virginians of their representation not even six months ago.
And it looks like this just got REAL:
Post continues:
... that concern directly to the proper authorities.
The image was presented publicly with the statement, “My ballot is in the Mail!” Yet in the race for Virginia’s 8th Congressional District, it identifies the Republican candidate as “Tony A. Mizusawa” instead of Tony A. Sabio.
I have now provided the Virginia Department of Elections with the evidence and requested that they determine what this image actually is—an authentic ballot, an altered image, a digitally generated image, an unofficial sample ballot, or something else—and whether Virginia election law applies.
I’m not going to prejudge their findings. I want the facts.
And the public deserves those facts too.This isn’t about Republican versus Democrat. When something is presented to Virginians as a ballot and contains the name of a candidate who does not exist, asking questions isn’t partisan. It’s accountability.Thank you to everyone who brought attention to this and demanded answers.
Now help keep the public informed. Share the evidence. Ask the questions. Let Virginia election officials determine the facts.
Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Tuesday morning, and he gave what I'd consider a pretty decent speech that reminded the world of American exceptionalism. Heck, I think I even needed to hear it because I've been feeling pretty gloomy about things lately.
But my favorite part was, of course, what he said about some of the last holdouts in a nearly unified conservative Latin America: Venezuela, Mexico, and Cuba. The president made it clear that he and his team will continue changing the Western Hemisphere, regardless of what the corrupt regimes and leaders in those countries think, and, well, let's just say it didn't go over too well.
We'll start with Venezuela. As we all know now, "interim president" Delcy Rodríguez is in New York for the UNGA, and she is supposed to be meeting with Trump and Marco Rubio on Tuesday for an informal pull-aside.
I didn't love this idea initially, but after seeing her unhappy, little scrunched-up face while Trump talked about her former boss, Nicolás Maduro, I think maybe this wasn't the worst thing that could have happened. First of all, thankfully, Trump didn't praise her as he is often quick to do when talking about a post-Maduro Venezuela. Second of all, her body language told us what we needed to know — she does so much against her will.
"We entered the Venezuelan capital, Caracas; descended on a heavily defended and fortified military base, one that was supposed to be flawless against attack; and arrested the outlaw dictator, real criminal Nicolás Maduro," Trump said. "Since that day, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed. They've let them out of jails, and we're working better with the leaders of Venezuela to forge a much better future for the Venezuelan people."
Here's a video of that exchange:
Unfortunately for her, Trump and Rubio have her on a medium-sized leash (that I wish was a little shorter), so she can pout all she wants when Trump says bad things about Maduro, but she was not able to get up and leave in protest, which is exactly what the representatives of the Cuban regime did.
"My administration is also seeking a fundamental change in the situation in Cuba, where the communist regime is under great pressure. The biggest pressure they’ve ever been under. It is an absolutely failed state. It is failing like never before. And it will fall," Trump began. "Marco Rubio is handling the negotiations... we'll see what happens."
He continued:
We'll not allow a haven for foreign adversaries to threaten America on our own doorstep, right at our doorstep. The Cuban regime has also spent decades coordinating with the left-wing radicals and communist networks here in the United States. As our State Department has detailed, they have cultivated ties to subversive and radical groups such as the Communist Party USA, Antifa, and the Democrat Socialists of America.
Communism will NEVER be coming to America. But freedom will be coming to Cuba.
Here's the video of the Cuban regime heading for the doorway:
Trump also mentioned how cartels have essentially taken over Mexico and called them the "ISIS of the Western Hemisphere." Facts.
"[They are] not good people. They are enemies at war with civilization, using murder, rape, torture, and extortion as instruments of terror. Like ISIS, they should be killed, exiled, or detained as enemy combatants without the possibility of release, which is what we’re doing," he said. "To that end, the United States has carried out dozens of strikes on cartel drug boats, destroying 97% of the drugs coming into the ocean and sea. You've seen it. They disappear very quickly."
He continued: "Mexico is the epicenter of the cartel violence, unfortunately. It's unacceptable for the United States to share a 2,000-mile border with a territory controlled by enemy cartels. So, Mexico must reclaim control of its soil from the enemies of humanity."
He added that the Mexican government doesn't want the cartels either, which I'd go out on a limb and say is only partially true. Many people in the Mexican government are bought and paid for by the cartels, so whether they "want" them is subjective.
The Mexican delegation didn't storm out or pout, but they didn't look particularly happy.
Later on Tuesday, Trump and Rubio plan to meet with Shield of the Americas leaders — those are the ones who are on our side and ready to join us in fighting the cartels and other adversaries and make the Western Hemisphere great again.
As RedState reported on Sunday, an ICE agent in Austin, Texas, shot and wounded a Venezuelan national who was in the country illegally. As if on cue, protesters took to the streets, tussling with police. But while the media waited for the next mostly peaceful riot to break out, elected officials in Austin were up to something else.
While no one is looking, the Austin City Council is moving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to non-profit organizations that are fighting deportations. Hidden within the Council's normal consent agenda is a way for Council members to pass what are deemed non-controversial measures in one bloc vote that conveniently leaves out any public input. Included in the bloc vote was the expansion of local non-profits American Gateways and Catholic Charities of Central Texas.
Just how much are Austin taxpayers on the hook for? A hefty $854,872 in local public funds specifically set aside for "deportation defense," focusing on federal immigration law enforcement. So, what sort of freebies are illegal immigrants getting from said Austin taxpayers?
Attorneys for both "detained and non-detained" immigrants who face active removal proceedings by ICE.
Pro Se Court Coaching: Funded legal workshops that train unrepresented immigrants to successfully navigate federal immigration court, file motions, and meet procedural deadlines to avoid deportation.
Direct legal staff to obtain work authorization
Covering federal immigration applications and any filing fees comes out of city funds.
Austin Public Health is the leading agency involved in allocating social service agreements, and isn't trying to hide it. Helping clients “obtain and maintain public benefits” is their stated measure of success.
But $854,872 is a drop in the bucket for Austin leftists. Since illegal immigrant defense funding started in 2019, American Gateways by itself has received around $3.4 million, but that amount is about to increase because of new authorization agreements to as much as $6.7 million.
As with many other metros, Austin is a big blue dot in a red state. But even with all that President Trump has done to rein in illegal immigration and clean up the mess left by the Biden administration, leftists are not going to stop. Because of that, the midterm elections become even more important. If Democrats win back power, Trump's policies on illegal immigration will be tossed aside, and the border will once again be thrown wide open.
After Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Harris County over the program, the case went all the way to the Texas Supreme Court, which cited skepticism over the state constitutionality of local governments using tax dollars to impede federal law enforcement.
But as you might expect, that hasn't stopped the leftists on the Austin City Council.
Romania’s Calin Georgescu filmed handcuffed out outside of courthouse in Bucharest via Facebook
DIICOT, Romania’s law enforcement agency tasked with investigating and prosecuting organized crime, drug trafficking, cybercrime, financial crimes, and terrorism-related offenses, and national police ambushed Călin Georgescu in traffic before 7 a.m. Monday in Bucharest.
According to reports from the European press, authorities yanked him from the car with his son Petru still inside and raced both to the family house in Mogoșoaian. Masked police units then smashed the front door with a ram while Cristela Georgescu and their youngest boy Pavel stood inside getting ready for school. The raid dragged on for nine hours.
Officers hit five addresses that morning in Bucharest, Mogoșoaia, Ciolpani and Buftea.
They filmed themselves storming the property and claimed they found €5,000. Georgescu was then hauled to DIICOT headquarters, then marched out in handcuffs that evening. He spent the night in Bucharest’s central jail.
Prosecutors now demand 30 days of preventive lock-up. The regime accuses him of running an organized crime group and committing fraud with particularly serious consequences. The story they suddenly revived claims he and two others posed as foreign money men in 2021.
They supposedly promised businessman Răzvan Leu fat Swiss loans in return for cash guarantees. Leu handed over more than €1.1 million. The loans never came. Sources name Ionel Rusen and Italian Massimiliano Arena as the other two.
Prosecutors claim that some of the cash later helped fund Georgescu’s 2024 campaign. The complaint has gathered dust since early 2024. The globalist machine pulled it out this week, five years after the alleged events, because they needed a fresh club.
This is Georgescu’s third live file. One charges him with helping plot against the constitutional order alongside Horațiu Potra and twenty others.That case opened its first hearing on 9 September. Georgescu stayed away.
The next date is 28 September. A second file slaps him with legionary propaganda.Georgescu crushed the first round of the 2024 presidential election on a hard anti-globalist platform. The Constitutional Court then cancelled the result after intelligence services peddled claims of a Russian online campaign.
They never showed the public any evidence that settled the argument. Ordinary Romanians still call it a stitch-up. The Dan-Bolojan government sits on that stolen vote and therefore holds little to no democratic legitimacy.
AUR leader George Simion hit back within hours of the raid. “Any of us could be next. Stop the abuses! Romania is a dictatorship!!!!” The raid landed on Simion’s 40th birthday. Nicușor Dan was posing in New York the same day while his thugs sent masked gunmen after the man who actually won an election.
The latest CURS trust polls still put Georgescu first among all politicians. In July he led with 33 percent, ahead of Nicușor Dan at 30 percent and George Simion at 24 percent. Later CURS figures put him near 40 percent. He remains the most popular politician in the country.
AUR owns the party race. INSCOP’s 1–7 September barometer gives George Simion’s party 39.7 percent of voting intention, 40.2 percent among people who say they will definitely vote.That is a 21-point lead over PSD at 18.7 percent and more than 23 points over
Globalist PNL at 16.3 percent. Globalist USR sits at 9 percent. AUR is larger than PSD and PNL put together. The lead is not a one-month freak. INSCOP has had AUR locked between 37 and 41 percent for a year, including 40.9 percent in January and 38.2 percent in May. CURS in July still had AUR first at 34 percent.
The parallel state needed a spectacle because it cannot beat AUR at the ballot box. Nicușor Dan’s own 2025 campaign burned through 13.7 to 14 million euros, much of it raised from hundreds of anonymous lenders. He still hides those names.
The dawn operation copies the Mar-a-Lago raid almost beat for beat. Armed agents hit a political rival’s home, rummaged through private rooms, and then paraded the target as a criminal on television.
In Florida the FBI later faced exposure, firings, and a backlash that helped return Donald Trump to power. Bucharest prosecutors are running the same script and expecting a different ending. Romanians remember the Soviet occupation and Ceaușescu’s Securitate.
The less than legitimate globalist regime that cancelled a free election now treats its winner like a criminal. It answers the people’s vote with rams, pistols and handcuffs.
The Trump White House is watching this closely. Washington has seen elections decided in courtrooms and jail cells before.
The arrest and detention of Georgescu comes after a shepherds’ and farmers’ rally in Piața Victoriei last week turned into a street fight after the crowd pushed gendarme lines on Kiseleff and chanted “Turul 2 înapoi” and “Călin Georgescu președinte.”
Riot police answered with tear gas, rubber batons and shield charges, dragged dozens behind the cordon and hauled about 47 people to police stations; official tallies also listed 10 injured gendarmes, damaged vans and later criminal files for outrage and public disorder.
The government called the violence the work of “infiltrators,” but video from the square shows baton blows, gas clouds and protesters being pulled out of the crowd in front of the same palace that cancelled the 2024 vote.
