An illegal immigrant convicted of repeatedly raping a ten-year-old girl has been deported from the United States just weeks after Minnesotas Democratic governor granted him a controversial pardon that shielded him from removal.
The Laotian national, 42-year-old Tou Lue Vang, was removed from the country after his legal status was revoked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to the Daily Mail. Rubio announced Vangs departure in a video posted on X, declaring: Just weeks ago, a convicted sex offender and foreign national was shielded from deportation by the governor of Minnesota.
Laotian national Tou Lue Vang was convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a ten-year-old girl in the State of Minnesota, Rubio said, noting that He even tried to pay his victim for her silence and he called his heinous crimes a minor thing. He added: Just days before this foreign sex offender was scheduled to be deported, Tim Walz, the governor, issued him a pardon, setting him free to once again endanger the children of America.
Well, this week I revoked his legal status in the United States and as a result federal agents took him into custody and as of today he has been removed from the United States, Rubio continued, though officials have not confirmed whether Vang was flown directly to Laos. Walzs June 10 pardon, issued to prevent deportation over the 2005 assault, ignited national outrage and was branded disgusting by Department of Homeland Security spokesman Lauren Bis.
His bid to keep Vang in the country instead drew federal scrutiny, with Rubio condemning what he characterized as a gross failure to protect American families. Because of our action, this foreign criminal will never pose a threat to any American ever again, Rubio said, insisting, 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.
This administration will always stand with the American people and defend them from violent criminals, Rubio added, underscoring a sharp contrast with Walz, a failed vice-presidential candidate who ran with Kamala Harris in 2024 and claimed he had weighed Vangs assertion that his culture permitted sexual contact between adults and children. Vang, who entered the U.S. illegally in 1994 under the Clinton administration and later received legal status, saw that status revoked after his 2006 conviction for raping the child.
He assaulted the girl repeatedly between 2002 and 2005 and tried to buy her silence with $10, yet despite a final removal order in 2006 he remained in the country until July of last year, when President Trumps Operation Metro Surge targeted illegal migrants like Vang for deportation. Vang applied for a pardon in 2023, which was granted by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Walz after they read a letter from his victim pleading for him to be allowed to stay in the United States.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin condemned the decision as a stark example of sanctuary-style politics gone wrong, calling the pardon horrific. This evil alien from Laos repeatedly sexually assaulted a ten-year-old child, Mullin wrote on X, warning that These are the illegal alien criminals sanctuary politicians like Tim Walz are protecting over American citizens.
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