Minnesota Rapist Pardoned By Walz Because Of ‘Immigration Concerns’

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Minnesota Rapist Pardoned By Walz Because Of ‘Immigration Concerns’

Minnesota officials granted a pardon to an illegal child rapist in part because he was “facing deportation,” according to a Fox News report.

Laotian national Tou Lue Vang received a pardon in June from Democrat Governor Tim Walz and pardon officials for his repeated rape of a 10-year-old girl after the criminal stressed his fear of deportation in his pardon application, Fox News reported.

Vang was subsequently deported.

In the hearing reviewing Vang’s pardon application, Walz said, “I can find no reason how Minnesota would be safer or better if Mr. Vang is deported.”

Vang was convicted in 2006 of repeatedly raping a child over a span of two years. Upon his arrest, Vang attempted to excuse his actions to police by calling the assault a “minor thing” and saying, “It is a cultural thing in Thailand to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12,” according to a Fox News report.

Vang’s application for a pardon was reviewed by the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission, which, in a 4-2 vote, recommended granting the pardon because of Vang’s “immigration concerns,” according to documents obtained by Fox News. (RELATED: Judge Who Helped Illegal Immigrant Evade ICE Walks Away With $5,000 Fine, No Prison Time)

A commissioner who supported Vang’s pardon noted the criminal “stated the need for clemency related to immigration issues.” Another official wrote that Vang’s six children made his situation a “very tough case,” and that an absent father was “not in the best interest of society,” according to Fox News.

Another commissioner conceded the “extraordinary severity” of Vang’s offense but deemed Vang’s “remorse and acceptance of responsibility” sufficient grounds for a pardon. He also noted that Vang “is facing deportation,” Fox News reported.

In an application for a pardon, Vang says, “My fear is that, if deported, my children will grow up without a father, like I did,” Vang wrote, promising commissioners, “I will do all that I can to be here and to protect them from the outcomes of my deportation,” according to Fox News.

Vang’s expressed fear that deportation would send him to “a place entirely unfamiliar to me, with no family, no home, and no future,” according to Fox News.

The Minnesota Board of Pardons, consisting of Walz, state Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, granted Vang’s pardon on June 10. The pardon revoked Vang’s post-conviction status as an illegal immigrant and removed the conditions necessary for deportation.

Assistant attorney Tami McConkey in Ramsey County, where the rapes took place, opposed the pardon, Fox News reported. Her opposition statement noted several aggravated features of the assaults, such as the extended time period of the abuse and the lack of sexual protection by Vang.

“While Mr. Vang expresses shame and regret about what his children experience when then [sic] learn of the offense, he does not share any thoughts or insight about what the victim must have gone through,” McConkey’s report wrote, according to Fox News. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Arrests Illegal Alien For Voting In Federal Election)

Government officials slammed Walz’s pardon of Vang early on. “Governor Tim Walz’s decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting,” Acting DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a press release. “These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting.”

Minnesota is listed by the Department of Justice as a sanctuary state, meaning the state limits local and state authorities from assisting federal immigration authorities.

The Minnesota Clemency Review Commission was created in 2023 under Walz’s leadership to review pardon applications from convicted individuals and make recommendations to the Minnesota Board of Pardons.