Rubio Steps in and Deports Immigrant Pardoned by Tim Walz for Sexually Abusing a 10-Year-Old.
Tou Lue Vang, 42, is out of the country weeks after Minnesota's pardon board wiped the conviction that made him deportable. The board says the victim herself asked them to do it.
Tou Lue Vang, 42, is out of the country weeks after Minnesota's pardon board wiped the conviction that made him deportable. The board says the victim herself asked them to do it.
The Laotian illegal immigrant pardoned last month by Minnesota's Board of Pardons, chaired by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, has been deported after Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally revoked his legal status.
Tou Lue Vang, 42, was convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl beginning when she was 10 years old. He was days from removal when the board cleared his record on June 10.
"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," Rubio told Fox News Digital. "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."
DHS confirmed the removal on Friday. Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis called Vang a "monster" and said Walz "pardoned this sex criminal in an attempt to allow him to remain in our country."
Vang came to the United States in 1994 as a child and was granted legal status under the Clinton administration. He leaves behind a wife and six children. It is the second time this year the Walz board has pardoned a Laotian illegal immigrant facing removal, after Jai Vang, convicted of armed robbery, in May.
