President Trump’s administration has deported an illegal immigrant child sex offender following a pardon from Minnesota that restored some of his rights but did not prevent federal immigration action.
According to Breitbart, the abuser, Tou Lue Vang, hailing from Laos, was arrested in December by ICE for repeated abuse of a 10-year-old girl between the years of 2002 and 2004. An immigration judge ordered his deportation in 2006, which meant he had lost his legal status to be in the country.
However, in February, a Minnesota judge ordered his release, and in June, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D), and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson pardoned him. According to Fox News, Vang has a criminal history that also included convictions for robbery, armed robbery of a business, and driving under the influence of alcohol.
State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott told Breitbart News Daily that Walz’s decision to pardon the abuser was “inexplicable.”
As a result, President Trump’s administration had to intervene, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had Vang deported. In a press statement, Rubio had explained, “Just weeks ago, a foreign child rapist was freed to once again endanger America’s children after receiving a pardon from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.”
He added, “Americans should never have to live in fear that foreign sex predators — shielded from deportation by their own elected officials — could endanger them or their children. That’s why I terminated his legal status in the United States. Vang has now been removed from our country and will never pose a threat to any American ever again.”
In response to the strong actions of President Trump’s administration, Walz bizarrely responded by questioning whether the decision to remove a convicted sex offender from the country would make communities feel safer. According to Breitbart, his response to the deportation was to ask whether it supported the idea that “we can’t all be judged by our worst day.”
This case of Vang makes President Trump’s administration stance on illegal immigrants in the country very clear. In a press statement, the White House had said, “A convicted child sex offender is no longer in our country thanks to President Donald J. Trump and his Administration defeating a sick attempt by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison to lend him safe harbor in the so-called “sanctuary” state.”