A resurfaced video from late last month shows Minnesota Governor Tim Walz claiming that his state would not be better off if a convicted child molester were deported.

The man Walz is speaking about, Tou Lue Vang, is a Laotian national who was convicted in Minnesota in 2004 of repeatedly sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl.

Vang pleaded guilty to the crimes, tried to pay the young victim for her silence, and had the audacity to blame her while claiming his actions were somehow a “cultural thing.” He served no prison time.

In the clip from late June, which is now going viral on X, Walz states, “I can find no reason how Minnesota is safer or better if [the child rapist] is deported to a country he has not been to since he was a child.”

WATCH:

🚨 WTF?! Shocking footage shows Tim Walz FEELING SAD for the child r*pist illegal alien he pardoned — who is now deported thanks to Marco Rubio

WALZ: “I can find no reason how Minnesota is safer or better if [the child r*pist] is deported to a country he has not been to since he… pic.twitter.com/MQxhg1NQxL

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 11, 2026

After his conviction, Vang lost his legal immigration status and faced a final order of deportation.

Rather than allowing the deportation, Walz and the Democrat-controlled Minnesota Board of Pardons issued a pardon that wiped away the convictions that made Vang deportable.

The pardon effectively shielded the child rapist from being sent out of the country.

Walz has treated the predator like a victim while showing zero concern for the 10-year-old girl he repeatedly sexually abused.

Earlier this week, as The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stepped in and revoked Vang’s legal status in the United States.

Federal agents quickly took the convicted child rapist into custody, and he has now been removed from the country.

.@ICEgov has DEPORTED Tou Vang, the illegal alien CHILD RAPIST @GovTimWalz pardoned in an attempt to allow him to remain in our country.

While Walz and his fellow sanctuary politicians fight to protect heinous criminals like this, we will continue putting the safety of the… https://t.co/QCzSnYh4zA pic.twitter.com/rjBXI5qhlj

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 10, 2026

Rubio made his position clear, stating that this foreign criminal will never again pose a threat to any American and that elected leaders should never force citizens to live alongside foreign sex criminals who have no right to be here.

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

“Because of our action, this foreign criminal will 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. This administration will always stand with the American people and defend them from violent criminals,” Rubio said in an X post announcing the deportation.

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