Minnesota Gov Defends Free Pass for Illegal Alien Sex Offender
Now, here’s a story that has managed to ignite just about every political debate imaginable at the same time—crime, immigration, executive clemency, and the question of what justice is supposed to look like years after a conviction. At the center of it all is Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is defending his decision to pardon […]
Now, here’s a story that has managed to ignite just about every political debate imaginable at the same time—crime, immigration, executive clemency, and the question of what justice is supposed to look like years after a conviction.
At the center of it all is Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is defending his decision to pardon a Laotian national convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a child, even after the Trump administration revoked the man’s legal status and deported him.
The man is Tou Lue Vang, now 42.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Vang sexually abused a girl beginning in 2002, when she was just 10 years old. The abuse continued over the next four years before he was convicted in 2006.
Those are the facts at the heart of this case, and they’re impossible to ignore.
But instead of the story ending with the pardon, it took another dramatic turn.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked Vang’s legal status, clearing the way for the Department of Homeland Security to deport him to Laos, the country where he was born.
The White House wasted no time celebrating the decision.
“Under President Trump, criminal illegal aliens who rape children will be found, arrested, and removed — and Democrat politicians will not stand in the way,” the administration said in a July 10 statement.
It didn’t stop there.
The White House also accused Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison of making what it called “a brazen effort to shield the criminal illegal alien predator from imminent deportation.”
Strong language.