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t was as predictable as the sun’s rising in the east. After Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bagged two dozen illegal-alien, Asian sex criminals in Minnesota, the Minnesota Star Tribune sided with the criminals. All that sex abuse by the soon-to-be-deported Laotians and Hmong, the newspaper reported, was just a “cultural misunderstanding” because they often marry young back home. Not so, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported. Truth is, they are dangerous sex criminals.Newspaper StoryThe Star Tribune’s tale of woe begins predictably:Two dozen Hmong men who have lived in Minnesota for decades are being held in Minnesota and Iowa...

DOBIE, Wis., Nov. 27 - The two gatherings, less than 200 miles apart, seemed to be separated by whole worlds. In this isolated village deep in the pine and cedar woods of the Upper Midwest, mourners trudged through falling snow on Friday to Our Lady of Lourdes Church to remember one of six hunters, all locals, killed near here a week ago. To the southwest, across the state line in Minnesota, thousands of Hmong immigrants streamed into a downtown St. Paul auditorium for three days of New Year's festivities with papaya salad, traditional courtship games and young women in dresses...