OUTRAGEOUS! Dem governor pardons rapist of 10-year-old to save him from deportation * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

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Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn. (Video screenshot)Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn.

WorldNetDaily reported some weeks ago already that Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat in Minnesota, had developed a new plan to protect illegal alien criminals from being deported under President Donald Trump’s agenda to secure the nation’s borders.

The failed vice presidential nominee on Kamala Harris’ unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2024 gives them pardons.

But now he’s raising eyebrows, and outrage, with his latest decision: To protect the convicted rapist of a 10-year-old girl from deportation by pardoning him.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, “GovTimWalz and Minnesota sanctuary politicians PARDONED an illegal alien who REPEATEDLY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED A 10-YEAR-OLD. On June 10, the Minnesota Board of Pardons voted to grant Tou Lue Vang, from Laos, a pardon for his 2006 convictions for sexual assault—strongarm sodomy and procuring a child for prostitution. This pardon came just a week before Vang was set to be REMOVED from our nation. During his interviews with police, Vang tried to justify his actions by saying ‘it is a cultural thing…to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12.’ Governor Walz’s pardon shielded this CHILD RAPIST from removal from our nation. This is the type of DISGUSTING criminal sanctuary politicians are shamelessly protecting.”

The Daily Mail bluntly labeled the defendant, Tou Lue Vang, 42, in the case an “illegal migrant PEDOPHILE.”

“Vang admitted to repeatedly sexually abusing the child for four years when he pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct in 2006, and at the time he justified his actions by claiming it is a ‘cultural thing’ to ‘marry and have sex with girls as young as 12,'” the report said.

His plea bargain allowed him to avoid jail, but Walz now has spared him the fate of deportation with his pardon, which also was supported leftists Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minnesota’s Chief Supreme Court Justice, Natalie Hudson.

Backlash was not long in coming as social commenters condemned the actin.

Vue reportedly entered the U.S. illegally in California in 1994, and was granted legal status by the Clinton administration. That status was revoked when he was convicted in 2006, and he was issued a final order of removal that October.

Then he was arrested last year during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

The New York Times said the rape victim, now an adult, had written in support of the attacker.

Walz started using the state pardon power he holds to protect illegal alien criminals some weeks ago. At that time he pardoned an illegal alien convicted of armed robbery before he could be deported.

The subject of that pardon was identified by Fox as Jai Vang, an illegal alien from Laos. He was convicted of aiding and abetting and armed robbery in 1994, and he served a prison term and was released.

Fox revealed, “When Walz learned of Vang’s arrest by the federal government, and that Vang had requested clemency to avoid being deported in June, the governor called a special session of the state’s Board of Pardons’ Clemency Review Commission to ensure the case was reviewed before Vang’s deportation could be completed.”

KSTP reported that it was the second such pardon stunt in Minnesota in just weeks. At that time, the board protected “Ricky” Chandee, a Laotian refugee whose circumstances mirrored Vang’s.

Chandee was 18 when he was convicted of assault in 1993, and he has not had any criminal convictions since then. He was up for deportation on May 5, and the Board of Pardons held an emergency meeting on May 4 to grant him clemency.

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.