The DeVory Darkins Show - ICE issues $20 Million dollar WARNING as Mamdani gets CONFRONTED

Episode Date: August 14, 2026

ICE issues $20 Million dollar shocking announcement as Mamdani gets CONFRONTED. This comes after the agency announced the use of shock gloves and Mamdani wife got rejected by the NYPDEPISODE SPONSOR:��Do not wait for another IRS letter or a frozen bank account. Call [phone] or visit http://tnusa.com/devoryFOLLOW ME:⁠https://www.x.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.rumble.com/c/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://devory.wtf.tv⁠BUY ME A COFFEE:⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/devorydarkins⁠SHOP OUR MERCH STORE:⁠https://store.devorydarkins.com⁠BUSINESS INQUIRIES:⁠[e-mail]⁠

So this is breaking news and a major win for the Trump administration as they have arrested the former chief financial officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center for funding the KKK. Let's take a listen. Fox News alert breaking moments ago. Fox News confirming the arrest of former Southern Poverty Law Center executive Heidi Byrick. Sources say she is accused of overseeing secret payments to informants. Attorney General Todd Blanche referenced the case last hour. As alleged in the indictment, this individual participated in the scheme, as alleged, I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts and completely fictitious company's names and

make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate as described. But I don't have, I think the indictment was unsealed this morning. I don't have, or I believe it was unsealed this morning. I think the arrest was this morning. The New York Post reports that Byrick federal $1.2 million in SPLC donor money to an informant in a white supremacist group. Now, this is exactly what 77 million people voted for, which is the root out fraud, hold these people accountable who's been defrauding our system and particularly our society. And this is just the latest example of that. The former chief financial officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center was caught taking donations, okay, donor money, and spending it on what exactly?

Well, first, the amount was $4.1 million in tax-exam donor funds between 2007 and 2023. So there's that. Secondly, she used it to attend and host extremist rallies. Recruit members grow and create extremist chapters, publish extreme literature, and buy materials for KK. Robs, Hoods, and Cross-Burnings. Ladies and gentlemen, the party who says they are against racism was donating money to a law center a nonprofit who funded racism. Make that make sense.

Here's more of what the Attorney General had to say. I've sealed a case against the former chief financial officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Can you please speak a little bit about what you've learned as part of that investigation and if we should expect more charges? So I'm not, so yes, today, my understanding is today there was, there was an arrest made and there is a new indictment that includes the, the former CFO of SPLC, I don't have any comments about whether we said from the beginning, everybody, not just me, but anybody who's talked about this case, like virtually every criminal case, the fact that indictment is returned doesn't end the investigation. It's just part of the investigation. Okay, here's something about SPLC that we should all probably come to grips.

This wasn't your standard nonprofit helping people with legal matters. This is essentially an intelligence asset that was used to fund unrest in our country. That's exactly who they were. Here's one example of that. The Civil Rights nonprofit had informants inside extremist circles, AI watching from above, and a theory about how isolated people snap. The question is not what SPLC could see. It is what they did once they saw it.

What does that mean? The SPLC essentially was tracking people's phones, building profiles on them, having a surveillance network that was set up. I'll give you an example of this. If we scroll down on this particular article, they spent over a million dollars doing this. They had a system in place that was geo-fencing to turn the torch rally into a data map. They could identify phones near the Robert E. Lee statue,

follow those devices after people left and build a picture of where those people came from and how the network moved. This is insane. Now, let's go back to this woman now that she's been arrested. And here, one of the interviews that she did explaining what the mission is. Watch. their views, I think white supremacy is, you know, one of the worst things mankind has come up with. Well, I can have a direct impact on these movements. And just in the first year, I was there.

We did some very good work, myself and my colleagues exposing anti-immigrant networks in the United States, some of which are still functioning today. Well, according to her, white supremacy is one of the most hateful groups and is a problem. But it's funny how they actually invested into it. So there's that. Let's move to our next, update, and this is about consequences. Once again, you know we've talked about the city of Chicago quite some time, right, whether it's the shortage with their Department of Education, how they had to cut teachers, they even threatened to lay off police officers. Well, guess what? The same thing is hitting another blue city, Minneapolis. The mayor, Jacob Frey, is now coming out saying the budget isn't a deficit, and they're going to have to increase taxes and cut city jobs. Let's take a

The city of Minneapolis is set to raise property taxes and lay off roughly 100 city workers in an attempt to balance the budget for the upcoming year. The city says it's running on a $30 million deficit. We're told that deficit comes from a massive police overtime payout and declining revenue from downtown properties. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry just outlined the details for next year's budget in front of city staff in downtown Minneapolis. Our Adam Duxter was there. Adam, what can you tell us? Yeah, Shaila, and we just wrapped up speaking with Mayor Frye a moment ago. He says he knows that these cuts are not going to be universally popular, but he says he feels he knows they are necessary in order to balance that budget. He told us without doing anything, that budget will only to only continue to increase in terms of a gap, reaching $60 million shortfall numbers by 2027. So he says, well, these won't be popular decisions. They're ones that need to happen right now. Yep, that's why we talk about tradeoffs every single time.

The way that blue cities are governed, something like this is inevitable. They're in a $60 million budget hole. We have to understand that. That's the first thing. Secondly, why? Well, employee compensation has grew substantially over the past few years. Police overtime was concealed by unrealistic budgeting, according to this article I'm reading here.

They only budgeted about $2.3 million for 2026 police overtime, despite spending 20 million. I mean, someone's not doing the budget properly or estimating properly. They also expanded, here you go, social programs during the federal stimulus years, also known as COVID. Downtown tax base has fallen off a cliff. Why? Because businesses have moved out. People have moved away because it's not a tenable situation. This is what you get consequences. When people are more concerned with woke programs and not concerned with taking care of the basic needs that would allow a city to flourish. Here's more. Now, that budget proposal for next year totals more than $2 billion into pay for that.

The city is proposing an 11.3% increase to property taxes. If you're a median value homeowner, that'll cost you about $409 a year or $34 a month. It is one of the largest single year property tax increases in some time here in the city of Minneapolis. The mayor also says they're going to plan to cut 100 positions from city government under this proposal. He says many of those positions were supported by grants, one-time funding, or temporary contracts. He also told us a minute ago that he knows many of those positions are still unfilled or are held by people who are soon to retire. He says he knows these decisions won't be popular, but they're necessary for the city's long-term health. I'm not just sitting here complaining in front of a camera and dunking on Democrats. I do have

some legitimate ideas or solutions that if I was in charge, I would absolutely be executing on solution number one, the pipeline from someone who's 18 years old, getting into a career ASAP, whether that is working for the city, working for the government, getting into the trades, right, getting into STEM, whatever it is. We want to make sure that our young people in our city are employed. That already contributes to the local economy. So that's one. Two, I would also invest in small businesses.

They think social programs are a legitimate replacement for small business. It isn't. So they hang the small business out to dry. And then jobs start getting lost, right? Taxes go up because they need to find the money somehow. And it all goes bust. I mean, that's as simple as I can make it. And listen, I'm not saying I'm the smartest guy, but I don't think what they've been doing clearly works. Emergency government cannot become permanent government. The circumstances that required us to respond in crisis are not the same circumstances that should define how we govern this city. in the long term. For the long term, we need responsible stewardship. It's making sure every tax, payer, dollar is accounted for. It's focusing our resources on the work that only city government can effectively deliver. This budget is not about expanding the role of municipal government or launching

a long list of new initiatives. It's about doing the hard things now. But notice, we're in the year of 2026 and they're finally getting around to doing this. At least we should give them some credit for finally coming to reality about how bad it is. I mean, the bottom line is during COVID, everybody was spending money. New programs were popping up left and right. Well, now that we're removed from COVID, where's the money coming from now? They don't have the money. They're running out. They've run out already to be accurate, which is why they're in a deficit. So, hey, if you're in Minneapolis, man, comment down below and tell us what you think about all this. All right. Let's go to our next update and we're going to stay in the state of Minnesota.

Because the election last night for a primary that is concerned, Peggy Flanagan, who's the lieutenant governor, won her primary. She'll be going against Michelle Tafoio on the Republican side as potentially the next senator of that state. But the real story is already what she is saying, what she's going to do to ICE if she gets into Congress. Let's go here. Look, everyone in Minnesota that I have spoken with agrees.

This state is going 100 miles per hour in the wrong direction. And it is because of this single party rule that we have had in St. Paul and in Congress with Angie Craig. But now particularly with Peggy Flanagan and her eight years alongside Tim Walz. This has been a disaster. And it's heartbreaking for those of us who love this state. You know, I got married here, raised my family here, I grew my career here. And I am not going to sit by and watch people continue to leave. Businesses are leaving.

Families are leaving. and our kids can't afford to stay here. The contrast could not be clear. We've had a crisis of leadership under Tim Walls and Peggy Flanagan, and now it's time for Minnesotans to stand up and say, you know what, we're not going to reward this kind of failure with a promotion to the U.S. Senate. Well, ultimately, the people of Minnesota are going to have to make that call.

In my heart of hearts, I would hope they wouldn't choose someone like her. This is a woman who told protesters to put their body on the line as it pertains to disrupting ICE impeding their operations, which led to obviously two people who lived in Minnesota, who were killed by ICE agents, and because they were aware they were not supposed to be. And she was the entire time egging in on. So, no, I don't think she should be in the Senate whatsoever.

There's legitimate criticisms against ICE, by the way. I wouldn't say they are above criticism. but encouraging people to impede operations and then, you know, some ways suggesting that they get shot to prove a point, I think that tells you she has no business being in Congress because the bottom line is that the governor had to end his political career because of Somalia fraud. She, her political career should be over too. Okay. And let me give me an example why that is. Here's what she had to say about ICE. I'm talking about if they were abolish, how would it work practically for like a criminal in your state who's here illegally?

How would that work practically? Would you think would that person be arrested and deported and what agency would do it? I'm just wondering how that would work. We need violent criminals to be held to account and we need an immigration system. Donald Trump's ICE is completely broken and it is not the answer. And again, I would just say, while the national media may have moved on, we are still recovering from Operation Metro Surge here. And, you know, the fear, the chaos, it's outrageous.

And I think the cruelty is the point. And now let's talk about Donald Trump's out of control ice force. We need to rip ice apart and stop them from terrorizing our communities. Well, let's just be clear about something. Their values would say that they do want open borders. They don't mind illegal immigration. in my opinion, they definitely don't admire the police or any type of immigration enforcement. So it's a free-for-all.

That's what it is for people like her. You see, they would have some credibility if they were not interested in trying to abolish ice. They would have a little bit more credibility if they criticized on points that are actually rooted in a strong foundation. Let me give you an example. Why don't they ever bring up body cameras? That's one of the main criticism of ICE agents right now. If I was a Democrat, which I'm not, and I'm not giving them any advice, but if I was, we should be hammering body cameras.

Why are they not all wearing body cameras? I mean, everybody across the board would agree with that. But again, that's me thinking like a rational person, someone with common sense. These people obviously lack that, so they wouldn't even obviously see it that way. Let's go back to Michelle Defoya, her opponent, and more of what she had to say about her. You know, back in the early 2000, she was a mentor to Tim Wald. she was training people who might want to be candidates for office. And I understand that one of your strategies is to really try to tie her with the massive fraud scandals there in Minnesota.

Well, John, it's not just a strategy. It's reality. It's the facts. It's in the paperwork. She has not spoken up about fraud at all. And it's been happening under her watch for these last many, many years. We're talking $9 billion of money that went out of taxpayers' pockets, skipped over the people they were supposed to go to and help, and right into the pockets of fraudsters, much of which was sent out of Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. Okay, so everything she said there is spot on. And the only challenge Michelle Defoya truly has is just the people of Minnesota. I mean, how radical are they when they go to the polls in November? And what type of voter is going to the polls in November? Is it a younger voter, an older voter, a working class voter, a highly educated voter?

We're going to find out because that is where you're going to see the differences, okay? I will say this, though, according to Peggy Flanagan, their focus is to continue to highlight this war with Iran, and they're using the words of Michelle Defoya to do it. Watch. I think right now, at least just kind of keeping a stiff upper lip, maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks, And so that gas goes a little further until this thing is over and these gas prices come back down again. Let's just try to be patriots about this. Is that how you define your patriotism, Lieutenant Governor?

That is absolutely not how I would define my patriotism. I think this illegal war in Iran that has been incredibly unpopular, but also has raised our gas prices, our fertilizer prices, has really devastated folks to. To simply say that the strategy there is to, you know, keep a stiff upper lip and take one less trip to Starbucks. I cannot think of anything that is more disconnected. Obviously, this is not an illegal war. The president has the authority.

I think that's been litigated time and time again. So I don't know why she's using that talking point. It's only to sound a little bit more dramatic for the audience, as you guys know. Michelle Tafoy's comments, although I do understand them, they've not. going to play well with younger Americans. I think me and you both know that. And what I have found in regards to this topic, it's a generational divide. People who are older support the war with Iran. People who are younger do not. There is no convincing otherwise. And so Michelle DeFoya may have access to numbers and data that tells her who are the people who are actually going to vote for her.

And I think she'll tailor her message for those people. That's just more of an insight in regards the politics and strategy, okay? And I will say this. This war can't go on forever. If I was the president, I'm sure he's seeking ways to wrap this up. Some people I've interviewed say it's going to go until January. It will go through the midterms. Some people say it should be over in the next month.

We don't know, okay? But he can't spend the next two years of his presidency and Iran. I really am convinced of that. And so I think Democrats should probably focus more on finding some level of credibility regarding affordability because they broke the economy first. Let's just be honest about it. Okay. And as we just went through right now with Jacob Frey, they still can't manage the budget properly. So maybe she should focus on that. And that's what I'd have to say about it all. But you guys drop your thoughts in the comments section to all three

of these updates. What do you make of the DOJ finally arresting this fraudster who is funding extremist groups with donor money? I think that is striking. And how money is, is essentially drying up for these blue cities like Minneapolis. Share the show with your family and friends, and if you want more updates about what happened earlier today, particularly with Francesca Hong, click on the next video because it's coming up right now.