Walz again questions deportation of convicted sex offender
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(The Center Square) – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is once again defending a criminal illegal immigrant who was deported by the Trump administration.
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Federal agents removed a 42-year-old Laotian national from the United States this week, roughly one month after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz pardoned the man to block his deportation for a conviction of repeatedly sexually assaulting a ten-year-old girl.
(ABC 6 News)–Governor Tim Walz is defending his decision to support a pardon for 42-year-old Too Loo Vang, who was convicted more than 20 years ago of molesting a 10-year-old child. Vang was deported last week by the Trump administration despite receiving a pardon approved by Walz, Attorney General …
In a press conference earlier this week, Walz said the deportation of Tou Lue Vang did not make Americans safer – despite recognizing he committed “horrific crimes.”
The Trump administration deported a convicted child sex offender to Laos last week, a 42-year-old man who had repeatedly assaulted a 10-year-old girl, just weeks after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and the state's Board of Pardons wiped his record clean.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz pardoned a convicted child sex offender weeks before the man's scheduled deportation, then, after federal authorities removed the man from the country anyway, Walz publicly questioned whether the deportation made anyone safer.
