{"id":472998,"date":"2026-09-23T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/472998\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:28:10","slug":"ice-detains-california-democrats-aide-at-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/472998\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE detains California Democrat&#8217;s aide at airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a California state legislative staffer at an airport in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ho Yin Mo, a field representative for California Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, was taken into custody at Harry Reid International Airport on September 17, the lawmaker said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a statement released <a data-ylk=\"slk:on social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CatherineStefaniCA\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">on social media<\/a>, Stefani called for Mo&#8217;s release, describing him as a &#8220;selfless public servant and a valued, legal employee of the California State Legislature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mo, who graduated from UC Berkeley in 2020, according to his LinkedIn, previously worked as a news reporter at KTSF, a Chinese-language television station based in San Francisco. He went on to work on local political campaigns, and has been employed by Stefani since January 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A DHS spokesperson said Mo entered the U.S. in 2020 &#8220;on a temporary basis but illegally overstayed his welcome,&#8221; <a data-ylk=\"slk:the San Francisco Standard;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2026\/09\/22\/sf-assemblymember-s-aide-detained-ice-faces-deportation-hong-kong\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Standard<\/a> reported. The outlet said he now faces deportation to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Newsweek contacted the Department of Homeland Security for comment via email on Wednesday, outside of regular working hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story; updates to follow.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Supervisor Catherine Stefani is shown during a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/newsweek_sports_200\/9aa50feacba0ea8ab17db263377eed04.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Supervisor Catherine Stefani is shown during a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Related Articles<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Start your unlimited Newsweek trial;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/subscribe?utm_source=FeedsRelatedArticles&amp;utm_medium=subslink&amp;utm_campaign=News\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Start your unlimited Newsweek trial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a California state legislative staffer at an airport in Las Vegas.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,35015,4684,186070,18858,2778,186069],"class_list":["post-472998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-state","tag-catherine-stefani","tag-field-representative","tag-harry-reid-international-airport","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-yin-mo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}