ST. PAUL, MN – This past June, an illegal alien from Laos who is also a convicted child predator was pardoned by state officials in Minnesota, leading to speculation that said pardon was issued in a bid to hinder the child predator’s deportation.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is facing heavy scrutiny after the Minnesota Board of Pardons, which Governor Walz is directly part of, granted the pardon of 42-year-old convicted child predator Tou Lue Vang. The timing of Vang’s pardon has sparked criticism from Homeland Security, with the agency highlighting in a post on the matter that the pardon came days before Vang was scheduled to be deported.
“On June 10, the Minnesota Board of Pardons voted to grant Tou Lue Vang, from Laos, a pardon for his 2006 convictions for sexual assault—strongarm sodomy and procuring a child for prostitution.
This pardon came just a week before Vang was set to be removed from our nation,” Homeland Security noted in a July 1st post to social media platform X.
The nature of Vang’s crime, alongside his rendered sentence, is another controversy coming to the forefront as a result of his recent pardon, as he pleaded guilty to repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl between 2002 and 2004, justifying his actions at the time to being a “cultural thing.”
Vang reportedly never spent a day in prison for his crimes against the young child, instead being handed down a period of probation which wrapped up in March of 2019.
In a press release regarding Vang’s pardon, Homeland Security expanded on the background of the criminal illegal alien’s immigration dealings following his 2006 conviction, citing how he was issued a final order of removal back in October 2006. According to Homeland Security Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis, Governor’s Walz’s pardoning of Vang is nothing more than an effort to shield him from deportation.
“Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting. These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting. Tou Lue Vang lost his legal status following his conviction for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. Following the conviction, he was placed in removal proceedings and issued a final order of removal by a judge. This pardon will take away this child rapist’s qualifying convictions that made him removable from the United States,” Acting Assistant Secretary Bis stated.
This incident involving Vang marks as the second notable instance where Governor Walz pardoned a criminal illegal alien from Laos seemingly in a bid to disrupt a looming deportation. Back in May, Governor Walz pardoned a convicted armed robber named Jai Vang less than two weeks after he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to follow through on a final order of removal issued nearly thirty years earlier under the Clinton administration.
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