You really have to wonder what’s going on in the mind of someone like Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).
He’s done and said a lot of unhinged things. We’ve also reported on a lot of the fraud now being investigated in his state. But what he did in the case of Tou Lue Vang raised a lot of eyebrows, as we reported.
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Vang, who came to the U.S. as a child, pled guilty to criminal sexual conduct after repeated incidents of sexual abuse with a girl starting when she was 10-years-old. He reportedly admitted it, calling it a “minor thing.” He would have been deported back when it occurred about 20 years ago, but Laos was not accepting returned deportees in large numbers at that time. So he was allowed to remain in the United States, on supervised release since then.
But then, when President Donald Trump came in, that changed, and Laos began to accept deportees. Hundreds were then deported, and Vang was detained in December. So he was about to be deported.
Then the Minnesota State Board of Pardons, a three-person panel including Walz, stepped in and granted Vang a pardon in June. That was based in part on a letter from the victim forgiving him. However, that doesn’t change the facts of what Vang did, although it did remove the conviction.
That’s when Secretary of State Marco Rubio stepped in to terminate Vang’s legal status in the country so that he could still be deported, and ensure the pardon would not stop that. Rubio has now announced that Vang has been deported from this country, and Rubio chastised the actions of Walz in the matter.
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Laotian national Tou Lue Vang was convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota.
He was set to be deported until @GovTimWalz issued him a pardon.
Then, I revoked his legal status. @ICEgov has removed him from the U.S. and he will never endanger another… pic.twitter.com/WCJkeeheJO
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) July 10, 2026
“Just weeks ago, a convicted sex offender and a foreign national was shielded from deportation by the governor of Minnesota,” Rubio said. Rubio explained that he had revoked Vang’s legal status, and federal agents took him into custody.
“As of today, he has been removed from the United States,” Rubio declared, saying Vang would never pose a threat to any American ever again.
“Americans must never be forced by their elected leaders to live alongside foreign sex criminals who have no right to begin with to reside in our country,” Rubio continued, saying this administration will always stand with the American people and defend them.
Rubio has taken on many jobs in the Trump administration, but good on him for putting on another hat: saving us from the bad decisions of Democratic politicians like Tim Walz. Thank you for putting the interests of the American people first. This should have been a simple decision; it shouldn’t have been hard, yet it appears to be for Democrats like Walz.
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Just one of the many, many reasons that we need to take a strong position in November and vote against any Democrat who doesn’t put the interests of the American people first.
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