A Laotian man named Tou Lue Vang entered the U.S. as a child refugee sometime in the 1990s, settling in Minnesota. In the mid-2000s, Vang was convicted on charges after he’d repeatedly raped a little girl over several years (the rapes began when she was just 10 years old), and after he was arrested, he told law enforcement that it was a “minor” offense, because child rape “is a cultural thing… to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12.” Anyway, Vang was let off easy as his 12-year prison sentence was stayed, and he spent just eight months in a “county workhouse.” (According to the county attorney’s office, the victim’s family pressured her to not cooperate with the investigation; I’m assuming it’s because they’re also Laotian and that cultural and tribal aspect grossly differs from the attitudes we Westerners possess when our children are raped.)
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Yet, his conviction jeopardized his immigration status, and he became eligible for removal, and in October of 2006, Vang was in fact ordered to be removed. As Andrew R. Arthur reports, Laos was at that time a “recalcitrant” country, unwilling to take back citizens being repatriated from the U.S., so Vang has been here, walking our streets, ever since. Entirely free.
But then Trump 2.0 happened, and the administration strong-armed Laos into accepting repatriations, so Vang was rounded up to be removed.
This is where Walz comes in. Vang submitted some sort of pardon to Minnesota’s Board of Pardons, and exactly one month ago, the three members of the board—Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and the state’s supreme court justice Natalie Hudson—granted Vang his request, meaning he was no longer subject to the removal order.
Now this is where Marco Rubio comes in, who amazingly, didn’t let this slide. Sure, Walz handed out the pardon, which he legally had the authority to do, but Rubio outsmarted him at his own lawfare game, and revoked Vang’s legal (refugee) status, making him now an illegal alien, again subject to removal—and he promptly sent the pervert packing. Here’s what Rubio said on the matter, via Fox News:
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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.
Thank God.
But there’s another equally terrible reality to our own officials helping foreign sex predators evade justice, and that is that 75 million people (so they say) actually put their support behind this man, to be second in line to lead the nation.
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Is there even common ground to be found with people like that?
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