As we’ve written before, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) simply cannot stop himself from putting his foot in his mouth, something we saw most recently with his reaction to the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday that “we hold that the States may maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females.”

RedState reported on Walz’s predictable reaction, which was to tweet that “As the Supreme Court says states can be cruel to trans kids, my message is clear: Here in Minnesota, we stand with and value our trans neighbors and youth.”

A number of Minnesota Republicans blasted back, including state Senator Julia Coleman (Carver County), who wrote in part, ” What’s cruel is putting your base above female safety and opportunities.”

READ MORE: Walz’s ‘Cruel’ SCOTUS Rant on Trans Athletes Explodes in His Face

As it turns out, Walz is also accused of being callously indifferent towards the safety and security of young girls (again) thanks to a pardon he approved in mid-June that effectively wiped clean the criminal record of a criminal illegal alien who was convicted in a 2005 case involving the repeated sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl over a period of two years:

The Minnesota Board of Pardons granted the reprieve on June 10 to Tou Lue Vang, 42, who came to the United States as a child and was set to be deported to Laos imminently. Mr. Vang had submitted a letter to the board expressing regret for the actions that led to his 2005 conviction, and said a pardon could help him stay in the country with his wife and six children.

Mr. Vang’s victim, who was 10 when the abuse began, also submitted a letter supporting the pardon. Mr. Vang pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct in a plea deal that spared him from serving time in prison.

The Times report noted that his record being wiped clean thanks to the Walz pardon gave Vang, who was 18 when the sexual assaults first started, “an avenue to fight deportation.”

Though Vang tried to blame the victim and use a cultural defense, telling investigators at the time that “it’s a cultural thing to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12,” he was convicted. And an immigration judge in 2006 agreed with immigration officials that the criminal illegal could be deported. Here’s why he wasn’t:

The conviction led immigration officials to seek his deportation, and an immigration judge ordered him removed in 2006. But because Laos refused to accept deportees in large numbers, many ethnic Laotians and Hmong, including Mr. Vang, were allowed to remain in the United States on supervised release.

That changed early last year when Mr. Trump returned to office, and Laos began to accept many of these stateless deportees with decades-old removal orders. Hundreds of people have since been deported to Laos.

In December, immigration authorities detained Mr. Vang as part of what the Trump administration has called Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota.

The Times also shared that, per court records, Vang “did not commit any further serious crimes, apart from petty traffic violations” after his 2006 conviction.

Needless to say, the Department of Homeland Security is not amused and has blasted Walz’s actions:

https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2072444197202714738

“Governor Tim Walz’s decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting. Tou Lue Vang lost his legal status following his conviction for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. Following the conviction, he was placed in removal proceedings and issued a final order of removal by a judge. This pardon will take away this child rapist’s qualifying convictions that made him removable from the United States.”

Walz and his fellow Board of Pardons members, Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) and Chief Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Natalie Hudson (a Walz appointee), are defending themselves by pointing to how much weight the unsigned statement favoring the pardon that came from the victim carries. And the Times pointed to another case of a male child sex offender from Laos facing deportation where the Board of Pardons denied the clemency request, which incidentally happened the day Vang was pardoned. 

But, if I’m reading this correctly, outside of being on supervised release, it sounds like Vang escaped the worst of the punishment he could have received for the vile crime (the deeply sickening details of which can be read ), including prison time and/or deportation after his conviction. And yet, because the victim wrote, “What happened to me was wrong, but I have had many years to think about this. I have made peace with it. I forgive him,” they elected to wipe his slate clean?

It’s probably a good thing for Walz that he dropped his gubernatorial reelection bid, because if he was still in the race, his Republican opponent probably could do some real damage simply by letting Walz twist himself into a pretzel in trying to defend what many would likely feel is an indefensible decision. 

I mean, I realize a victim’s statement is powerful, but when you consider what Vang did, and how light he got off, one has to wonder why the fact that he’s faced virtually no punishment didn’t carry even more weight with Walz, Ellison, and Hudson. Then again, Democrats have repeatedly shown themselves on the side of criminal illegals over American citizens, so I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised.

Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.

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