{"id":476171,"date":"2026-09-26T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476171\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:06:11","slug":"california-lawmaker-calls-for-staffers-ice-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476171\/","title":{"rendered":"California lawmaker calls for staffer&#8217;s ICE release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAS VEGAS (<a href=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"http:\/\/fox5vegas.com\/\">FOX5<\/a>) \u2014 A California lawmaker is calling for the release of her staff member after he was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Harry Reid Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Assemblymember Catherine Stefani said Ho Yin Mo was detained Sept. 17 during a targeted operation at the airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MORE ON FOX5: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/09\/25\/las-vegas-police-respond-officer-involved-shooting-near-charleston-hualapai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fox5vegas.com\/2026\/09\/25\/las-vegas-police-respond-officer-involved-shooting-near-charleston-hualapai\/\">Las Vegas police investigating \u2018negligent shooting\u2019 in stolen vehicle response<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Department of Homeland Security said Mo legally entered the U.S. in 2020 but later overstayed his authorization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stefani said Mo is a legal employee of the California State Legislature who helps Chinese-American constituents access health care, child care and food support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She is asking federal officials to release him from an immigration detention center in Pahrump.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KVVU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (FOX5) \u2014 A California lawmaker is calling for the release of her staff member after he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,187116,8,4684,187114,187115,187117],"class_list":["post-476171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-legislative-staffer-ice","tag-california-news","tag-catherine-stefani","tag-harry-reid-airport-ice-arrest","tag-ho-yin-mo-immigration-arrest","tag-pahrump-immigration-detention-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476171","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=476171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}