Hochul pardoned Somchith Vatthanavong, a 52-year-old Laotian illegal immigrant.
Posted on 08/18/2025 6:44:39 AM PDT by servo1969
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has outdone herself.
At a time when violent crime, illegal immigration, and public safety dominate national concerns, the governor of New York decided her top priority was granting clemency to an illegal immigrant with a manslaughter conviction.
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Dem Governor Literally Pardoned a Convicted Killer to Protect Him from Deportation Matt Margolis | 1:15 PM on August 17, 2025
AP Photo/Hans Pennink New York Governor Kathy Hochul has outdone herself.
At a time when violent crime, illegal immigration, and public safety dominate national concerns, the governor of New York decided her top priority was granting clemency to an illegal immigrant with a manslaughter conviction.
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Hochul pardoned Somchith Vatthanavong, a 52-year-old illegal immigrant who was convicted as a teenager of killing a man in a Brooklyn pool hall. By offering him a pardon, Hochul effectively cleared the path for him to stay in the United States and avoid deportation.
Vatthanavong shot and killed a man outside that pool hall in 1990. He called it self-defense. The court didn’t buy it. He was convicted of manslaughter and criminal possession of a firearm and served 14 years behind bars. After his release, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flagged him for removal, as any reasonable person would expect. After all, if you’re not an American citizen and you commit a crime that serious on American soil, deportation seems like an obvious consequence.
But Hochul disagreed. Last month, the governor stepped in with a pardon, which not only eliminated the conviction that triggered his deportation order but also allowed him to reopen his immigration case entirely.
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The Democrat Party truly believes this will get them votes.
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The Democrat Party truly believes crime and criminals will get them votes ... Because one criminal protects another.
democrats are criminally insane
“The Democrat Party truly believes this will get them votes.”
Anything, literally anything, done in the name of fighting Trump is a winning strategy with liberals. The real problem for Dems comes in the form of independents. Not so sure the squishy middle will support this, assuming they find out. The media will bury this like a turd in a catbox.
When is karma going to settle on Kathy’s ***? I’m getting tired of waiting.
“The Democrat Party truly believes this will get them votes.”
Read the article about the voting patterns of college-educated women - it works on them, and there’s enough of them.
(required disclaimer for feminists here, I’m not talking about EVERY woman, I’m talking about a specific segment of the population and how they vote as a group)
...by the way, the reason it works is because the college-educated women view it as poking Trump in the eye, and that is ALL that matters to them.
(required disclaimer for feminists here, I’m not talking about EVERY woman, I’m talking about a specific segment of the population and how they vote)
Communists calling comrads for greater unity indeed.
Did he make him promise not to kill anyone else before the 2028 elections?
If they could ‘pardon’ the word ‘illegal alien’ at these domestic enemy state levels, they’d do it.
Best they can do as domestic enemies is offer sanctuary.
Hope they have an update list of all those illegals in their state sanctuaries somewhere that could be leaked to ICE
Exactly.
“The Democrat Party truly believes crime and criminals will get them votes ... Because one criminal protects another.”
Such an incisive way of stating it.
It was not only worth reposting, but this profoundly struck me and I wanted underline it because it so neatly captures reality.
Let me run the numbers.
He’s 52. It’s 2025, so he was born in 1973.
He killed a man in 1990, so he’d have been 17. To be tried as an adult would be expected.
Served 14 years. So released in 2004.
Where’s he been for the last 20 years? What’s he been doing?
If he’d been “flagged for removal”, why was he still here?
Remember, he arrived legally as a refugee, in 1981. He received a green card, and then was ordered deported in 2000 after his conviction.
Makes sense. Criminals are their core constituency.
Hochul pardoned Somchith Vatthanavong, a 52-year-old Laotian illegal immigrant.
Power mania coupled with psychotic group think?
Why does the press not ask Dems about Cloward-Piven?
It will, from the lunatic ~12%, which are apparently the majority in NY State.
100%. Snubbing Trump is more important than being alive to them.
Hochul is insane. I am so freakin’ glad I left NY State.
And she looks insane. Like some sort of Batman villain who put make up on over the white skin and is going around looking ‘normal’.
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