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ICE Deports Immigrant Who Was Pardoned for Sex Abuse Conviction
The New York Times ^ | July 10, 2026Updated 2:26 p.m. ET | Amy Qin

Posted on 07/10/2026 1:02:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The Department of Homeland Security said on Friday that it had deported an immigrant just weeks after he received a pardon from Minnesota state officials for a 2005 conviction for sexually abusing a child.

The pardon last month from Minnesota’s pardon board, which includes the Democratic governor Tim Walz, effectively erased the criminal record of the man, Tou Lue Vang. Mr. Vang, 42, had come to the United States legally as a child, but because of his conviction, he lost permanent residency status and was issued a final removal order. Before his pardon, Mr. Vang had been facing imminent deportation to Laos.

Pardons, however, do not automatically safeguard against deportation.

It is unclear where Mr. Vang was sent or on what specific legal grounds he was deported.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a video statement posted on X that Mr. Vang “has been removed from the United States” and that “because of our actions, this foreign criminal will never pose a threat to any American ever again.”

Mr. Vang and his family could not immediately be reached for comment.

Mr. Vang was around 18 when he first began abusing his victim, who was then 10. After his arrest in 2005, he blamed cultural norms in Thailand, according to the criminal complaint. He later pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct in a plea deal that spared him from serving time in prison.

He was ordered deported in 2006, but Laos had for many years refused to accept large numbers of deportees. Many ethnic Laotians and Hmong, including Mr. Vang, were allowed to remain in the United States on supervised release.

In that time, Mr. Vang got married and had six...


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: democratposterboy; hmong; illegalposterboy; plausibledeniability; stillachildmolester; touluevang; vang

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1 posted on 07/10/2026 1:02:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Walz is a traitor.


2 posted on 07/10/2026 1:03:13 PM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“It is unclear where Mr. Vang was sent...”

...Laos is beautiful this time of year


3 posted on 07/10/2026 1:04:34 PM PDT by albie
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He’s still a sexual abuser. We already have a whole slew of those. Send his azz home. Send his butt buddy little Tiny Timmy Tampon Tulips Kabuki Walz with him to be his houseboy when he gets home.


4 posted on 07/10/2026 1:07:51 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If two jackasses sneak onto a thoroughbred breeding farm, they'll still throw another jackass.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It is unclear where Mr. Vang was sent or on what specific legal grounds he was deported.

Being a convicted pedophile might be one place for the legal experts of the NYT to look. Timmy Walz appears to think otherwise, which is certainly very interesting.

5 posted on 07/10/2026 1:08:56 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“…or on what specific legal grounds he was deported.“

Oh come the feck on!!!!


6 posted on 07/10/2026 1:12:10 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: Billthedrill
Yep. He was pardoned by a political hack governor who wanted to give him a free pass. He was still guilty.

Let him practice what he claimed is normal in his culture closer to his culture.

7 posted on 07/10/2026 1:13:44 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Billthedrill
Yep. He was pardoned by a political hack governor who wanted to give him a free pass. He was still guilty.

Let him practice what he claimed is normal in his culture closer to his culture.

9 posted on 07/10/2026 1:13:53 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Rather than “ICE Depots Immigrant”, how about “ICE Disappears Immigrant” who sexually abused child?


10 posted on 07/10/2026 1:22:38 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Minnesotastan really hates it’s native born citizens. But then again they elect these corrupt scum balls, so maybe they are self-loathing and like the abuse?


11 posted on 07/10/2026 1:24:31 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: Democrat = party of treason

the new york times are all traitors


12 posted on 07/10/2026 2:26:26 PM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: Democrat = party of treason

And Rubio is based.


13 posted on 07/10/2026 3:08:56 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: albie

SOOOOOOOOOOOO—6 KIDS WHO ARE NOW CONSIDERED USA CITIZENS???????

SPARE US

THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHY “BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP” IS WRONG. VERY WRONG


14 posted on 07/10/2026 3:31:25 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ridesthemiles

He wasn’t born here and wasn’t a citizen.


15 posted on 07/10/2026 5:37:58 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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