She's Been Arrested — Secretary of State Marco Rubio Gives The Order To Go as ICE Arrests...
She's Been Arrested — Secretary of State Marco Rubio Gives The Order To Go as ICE Arrests...
Washington, D.C. - May 26, 2026
SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO ORDERS ICE ARREST OF CUBAN REGIME ELITE’S SISTER IN FLORIDA AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CRACKS DOWN ON FOREIGN THREATS
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that federal authorities have arrested Adys Lastres Morera, the sister of sanctioned Cuban official Ania Guillermina Lastres, in Florida. Rubio stated that Lastres Morera will remain in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pending deportation proceedings after he determined she was removable under U.S. immigration law.
Lastres Morera entered the United States as a lawful permanent resident on January 13, 2023, during the previous administration. Rubio, who is of Cuban descent, personally revoked her green card after concluding that her presence posed a direct threat to American foreign policy interests due to alleged ties to the Cuban regime and its military-controlled business conglomerate, GAESA.
“For far too long, the family members of terrorist organizations, repressive anti-American regimes, and other bad actors who would threaten the national security of the United States have been given a free pass to enjoy the privileges of living in the United States,”
“Past Administrations have permitted the families of Cuban military elites, Iranian terrorists, and other reprehensible organizations to enjoy lavish lifestyles in our country funded by stolen blood-money, while the people they repress at home suffer in increasingly dire circumstances,”
“No longer. Under President Trump, we are removing from our country the family members of IRGC terrorists and Cuban regime elites,”
“Let me be very clear: if you threaten the national security of the United States, there will be nowhere on this earth — much less in our country — that you and your cronies can live lavishly,”
“We will find you, and we will hold you accountable.”
On X, Rubio detailed that Lastres Morera was managing real estate assets in the U.S. while aiding Havana’s communist regime. She is the sister of the Executive President of GAESA, the Cuban military-controlled financial conglomerate that controls roughly 70 percent of Cuba’s economy and is believed to hold up to $20 billion in illicit funds concealed overseas.
“Adys Lastres Morera is the sister of the Executive President of GAESA, the Cuban military-controlled financial conglomerate that steals millions in aid for the Cuban people at the behest of the regime,”
“Morera was managing real estate assets and living in Florida, while also aiding Havana’s communist regime, until I terminated her permanent resident status,”
“I am pleased to announce that today, she was arrested and is now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,”
ICE Homeland Security Investigations confirmed that her presence posed a serious adverse foreign policy consequence and made her removable under section 237(a)(4)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
“Adys Lastres Morera’s presence in the United States has potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for our nation, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has determined that she is removable under the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act,”
“Allowing Lastres Morera to remain in the country would send a signal that Cuban regime-affiliated networks could continue to access the U.S.’s financial, educational and social institutions — but that is not the case,”
“HSI will continue to investigate those with ties to our nation’s adversaries and take appropriate actions to neutralize threats against our homeland,”
GAESA manages Cuba’s tourism industry, remittances, and the Cuban doctor program — key funding sources for the ruling communist regime. The arrest sends a clear message that the Trump administration will no longer tolerate regime-connected individuals enjoying American privileges while oppressing their own people. This action reinforces the president’s America First foreign policy that prioritizes national security over outdated open-border leniency.
Eight North Carolina Return Preparers Plead Guilty in Almost $25M Pandemic-Relief Fraud Scheme
Eight North Carolina Return Preparers Plead Guilty in Almost $25M Pandemic-Relief Fraud Scheme
The owner of a North Carolina tax return preparation business pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to prepare false returns claiming fraudulent refunds based on COVID-19 tax credits. Seven other return preparers have already pleaded guilty for their roles in the same scheme.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Nejlai Mitchell owned and operated a tax return preparation business out of Lumberton, North Carolina, and Hope Mills, North Carolina. From approximately April 2022 through May 2023, Mitchell and seven employees filed false tax returns seeking fraudulent refunds based on the paid sick and family leave credit, a credit passed by Congress to aid struggling businesses during the COVID-19 global pandemic. As a result of the conspiracy, the IRS paid out approximately $13,890,697 in fraudulent tax refund claims.
“Instead of honoring their legal and ethical duties as tax preparers, this group allegedly engineered a calculated scheme to enrich themselves by submitting false returns,” said Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division. “Stealing taxpayer funded relief in a national emergency is both reprehensible and deeply harmful to the public, and we will not hesitate to hold accountable those who exploit a crisis for personal gain. The Fraud Division remains unwavering in its commitment to protecting the integrity of federal relief programs and pursuing tax fraud wherever it occurs.”
Mitchell admitted to the conspiracy shortly after Whitnee Leach pleaded guilty, on May 19, 2026, to participating in the same conspiracy. Both Mitchell and Leach also pleaded guilty to assisting in the preparation of false tax returns.
Six other co-conspirators pleaded guilty to preparing federal tax returns for clients that included materially false items. Tiffany Moody and Shaneen Ray pleaded guilty on December 9, 2025; Eyoubo McBurney and Katrena Stanback pleaded guilty on September 24, 2025; and Jeannie Negron and Sylvia Swindell pleaded guilty on August 20, 2025.
Mitchell is scheduled to be sentenced in September. Leach is scheduled to be sentenced in August. Mitchell and Leach face a maximum penalty of five years for conspiracy and three years for preparing and filing false tax returns. The remaining six defendants each face a maximum penalty of three years in prison for preparing and filing false tax returns for clients. Their sentencing hearings are set for July 2026. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division and U.S. Attorney W. Ellis Boyle of the Eastern District of North Carolina made the announcement.
IRS Criminal Investigation is investigating the case.
Trial Attorney Caroline Pearson and Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Ontjes of the Eastern District of North Carolina are prosecuting the case.
On April 7, the Department of Justice announced the creation of the National Fraud Enforcement Division (Fraud Division). The Fraud Division is laser-focused on investigating and prosecuting those who commit fraud against the American people. The Department’s work to combat fraud supports President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse within Federal benefit programs.
‘Sit Down, Tough Guy’ — Fetterman Just Called Mamdani a Clown and Meant It
‘Sit Down, Tough Guy’ — Fetterman Just Called Mamdani a Clown and Meant It
John Fetterman doesn’t do diplomatic. And on Sunday morning, watching the mayor of New York City threaten to arrest the Prime Minister of Israel, the Pennsylvania Democrat decided diplomacy was overrated anyway.
“Sit down, tough guy.”
That was Fetterman’s on-air response to Mamdani’s increasingly elaborate threat to deploy the NYPD against Benjamin Netanyahu when he arrives in New York for the United Nations General Assembly in September. He added one more word that cuts through all of the mayor’s legal maneuvering and activist posturing: “clown.”
He’s right. On both counts.
Let’s be clear about what Mamdani is actually doing here. He went on the record with the New York Times saying his legal team is having “active conversations” about whether New York City has any authority to act on the International Criminal Court’s warrant for Netanyahu. He wouldn’t say whether he’d order the NYPD to physically arrest a foreign head of government. He wouldn’t address diplomatic immunity — which covers foreign leaders attending UN sessions and is about as settled in international law as anything gets. What he said is that Netanyahu “belongs in The Hague” and that the conversations are ongoing.
This is theater. Sophisticated theater, designed to play to a base that elected him specifically because he talks this way — but theater nonetheless.
The United States is not a signatory to the Rome Statute. The ICC has no jurisdiction over American soil that any American court or law enforcement agency is obligated to recognize. The NYPD cannot legally arrest a foreign head of state attending a UN session in New York City based on a warrant from a court the federal government doesn’t recognize. Legal commentators across the political spectrum have called the whole premise, in the words of one attorney, “clown level stuff.”
Fetterman zeroed in on exactly this: “He has no way to do that, of course, obviously. America’s not even part of that corrupt court. So he’s just a clown to even say that.”
Vote to Remove Squad Democrat Ilhan Omar From House — She's DONE After House Republican Lawmaker Calls On Trump...
THE EXPATRIATION ULTIMATUM: Randy Fine Backs Trump’s Expulsion Campaign Against Ilhan Omar Amid Sweeping DHS Marital Registry Investigation
WASHINGTON, D.C. — JUNE 26, 2026 — The ongoing ideological warfare paralyzing the lower chamber of Congress has reached a volatile, unprecedented flashpoint, as conservative hardliners move to transform a multi-million-dollar state welfare probe into a total denaturalization and deportation trial targeting a sitting member of the legislature.
What happens when a freshman conservative firebrand utilizes a nationwide media platform to demand the outright stripping of citizenship and physical banishment of a prominent progressive icon? For an administration hardwired for absolute, aggressive interior enforcement, the answer is a high-velocity escalation of institutional scrutiny. Florida Republican Representative Randy Fine has officially thrown his absolute backing behind President Donald Trump’s aggressive call to completely expel Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the United States.
The political firestorm ignited after President Trump delivered a blistering rally address in North Carolina, explicitly linking the Minnesota progressive to explosive, wide-ranging allegations surrounding a massive, multi-million-dollar pandemic aid fraud network that has heavily compromised public assistance pipelines across the Midwest.
I. THE EXCLUSION CRISIS: THE RADICAL WELFARE MANDATE
The physical friction between Fine and Omar has been building for over a year, marked by intense, highly personal cross-fire on Capitol Hill. Fine—the gambling executive who swept into Congress following a high-profile 2025 special election victory—refused to mince words during a fierce television broadcast, declaring that Omar represents a permanent, systemic danger to the integrity of foundational American immigration guidelines:
“Mainstream Muslims have declared war on us. The least we can do is kick them the hell out of America. Go for it.” — Representative Randy Fine
THE NATIONAL SECURITY EXPULSION DOSSIER: OMAR
* PRIMARY AGENCY AXIS: Department of Homeland Security Vetting Operations
* STATUTORY INFRACTION: Investigating 18 U.S.C. Marriage Fraud & Naturalization Violations
* FINANCIAL EXPOSURE: Systemic oversight of pandemic-era welfare siphoning in Minnesota
* REMOVAL POSTURE: Privileged resolution drafting to execute complete floor expulsion
Fine directly coupled his sharp institutional criticism to what he characterized as a complete breakdown of internal auditing guardrails under Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, dismissing the executive branch's defensive rhetoric in St. Paul as complete garbage.
The Florida lawmaker confirmed he is actively drafting a strict new legislative package designed to systematically restrict noncitizen access to state safety nets, arguing passionately that taxpayer-funded public benefits must be legally walled off and reserved exclusively for verified American citizens.
II. THE BIOMETRIC INQUEST: HOMAN DEPLOYS THE REGISTRY
While House Republicans scramble to mobilize a formal expulsion resolution on the chamber floor, the executive branch's enforcement command has initiated a far more dangerous legal track for the Minnesota Democrat.
Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed that specialized units within the Department of Homeland Security are executing a thorough, top-down review of long-standing allegations that Omar committed severe federal marriage fraud to evade U.S. immigration caps.
[ THE IMMIGRATION COMPLIANCE GAUNTLET ]
* OVERSIGHT TRIGGER: House Oversight Committee hearing on Minnesota aid fraud.
* BIOMETRIC NODES: Extraction of 2009 legal marriage certificates and passport logs.
* STATUTORY PENALTY: Denaturalization under INA § 340 and subsequent immediate deportation.
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STATUS: Federal task forces pull cell and travel registries across Hennepin County.
The high-threshold probe focuses directly on historical data indicating that Omar entered into a legal marriage in 2009 with a foreign national whom her close associates previously identified as her sibling—allegedly to secure him lawful permanent residency status.
Homan verified that field units are actively pulling certified immigration filings, tax records, and passport logs this week to definitively determine whether the congresswoman engaged in felony marriage fraud or polygamy, actions that carry automatic statutory penalties of denaturalization under Section 340 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
III. THE HEBREW HAMMER VS THE PROGRESSIVE FRONT
The escalating DHS sweep drops onto an intensely polarized national security map, arriving on the heels of major federal sweeps targeting visa fraud rings and identity exploitation syndices across the Somali community in Minneapolis. Homan reasserted that the administration is operating under explicit, capitalized directives from the President to hold all political figures to absolute rule-of-law metrics, irrespective of their status inside the Capitol.
Omar’s campaign team has fired back with an intense counter-brief, branding Fine’s expatriation demands as a plainly genocidal display of Islamophobic panic designed to endanger her life and incite street-level political violence. Backed by a unified Democratic leadership block, progressive allies are demanding Fine’s immediate resignation. Fine completely brushed aside the outcry across digital networks with a blunt, capitalized ultimatum: “The Hamas Caucus is upset. Boo hoo. I guess they weren't listening when I said the Hebrew Hammer was coming.”
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THE FINAL VERDICT
The grand machinery of federal immigration enforcement and congressional discipline has locked its sights on the upper Midwest, proving that the old-guard playbook of leveraging a congressional seat to shield personal history from federal oversight has hit an unyielding concrete wall. The narrative that high-profile lawmakers are immune from naturalization tracking has been permanently dismantled by active DHS files.
As the House Oversight Committee prepares to issue secondary subpoenas for Hennepin County registry metadata and federal field teams expand their security cordon around Minneapolis, the progressive establishment faces an inescapable reality chasm. Everyday citizens are left to watch the escalating investigative sweeps and ask: when the Department of Homeland Security unseals its final marital database findings, will Ilhan Omar maintain her seat in Washington—or face total denaturalization and immediate deportation from the country?
