Federal officials announced Friday that they have deported a child sex offender who was pardoned in Minnesota last month.
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Tou Lue Vang, originally of Laos, was revoked of his legal status. Rubio said federal agents took Vang into custody and, as of Friday, the now 42-year-old sex offender has been removed from the country.
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Gov. Tim Walz faced federal scrutiny after pardoning Vang of his crimes in June, in which Homeland Security said the pardon would prevent Vang from being deported. Vang was previously convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in 2006 for repeatedly assaulting a 10-year-old girl.
The Board of Pardons, which consists of the governor, attorney general and chief justice, all voted on June 10 to pardon Vang.
In reference to Vang’s pardon in Minnesota, Rubio said, “Americans should never have to live in fear that foreign sex predators — shielded from deportation by their own elected officials — could endanger them or their children. That’s why I terminated his legal status in the United States. Vang has now been removed from our country and will never pose a threat to any American ever again.”
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