The Trump administration has slammed Tim Walz for granting clemency to a Laotian national who was facing deportation
The US Department of Homeland Security has slammed Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, for pardoning an illegal migrant convicted of sexually assaulting a ten-year-old girl.
The DHS described the Minnesota Board of Pardons’ decision as “madness,” noting in a press release on Wednesday that the clemency could thwart the planned deportation of the Laotian national.
“This pardon will take away this child rapist’s qualifying convictions that made him removable from the United States,” acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said.
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin also wrote on X that the Minnesota governor’s “decision to PARDON an illegal alien child rapist is horrific.”
The board, which includes Walz, state Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, granted a pardon to Tou Lue Vang on June 10. The board took into consideration the fact that the state’s Clemency Review Commission had approved the migrant’s petition in April.
Vang, 42, was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in 2006 after entering a plea deal that spared him prison time. He admitted to repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl between 2002 and 2004, but tried to justify his actions, insisting that “it is a cultural thing…to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12,” according to the DHS.
Following his conviction, Vang, who had entered the US as a refugee in 1994, lost his legal immigration status and was issued a final order of removal by a Department of Justice immigration judge. However, since Laos had for years refused to accept a large number of deportees, the convicted child sex offender remained in the US on supervised release, the New York Times reported.
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