The State Department is retaliating against Tim Walz for protecting a foreign child rapist’s amnesty
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Laura Ingraham and Acting ICE Director Jonathan Fahey have been critical of Democrats over their approach to illegal immigration and criminal justice. They highlighted Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s controversial pardon of a child rapist, who was also an illegal immigrant, and a lighter sentence for an illegal truck driver in California. Ingraham also questions why victims’ rights are often seen as secondary.
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After Democrat Tim Walz doubled down on his quest to pardon a foreign child rapist before his deportation, the State Department has once again changed Minnesota’s governor up and down.
The Minnesota Board of Pardons, which includes Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and state Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, granted clemency to Laotian national Tou Lue Vang, 42, on June 10. Vang was scheduled to be deported from the United States before the pardon.
“Governor Walz’s pardon of a convicted sex offender was a grave and disloyalty to the people he is supposed to protect,” Department Assistant Secretary Dylan Johnson told Fox News Digital.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2026. The hearing examined allegations of misuse of federal funds for Minnesota’s social services and Medicaid programs. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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“Walz’s plot to sacrifice the safety of the American people on the altar of open borders was thwarted by Secretary Rubio. Now this foreign criminal will never harm another American,” he continued.
Vang was convicted of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl between 2002 and 2004, and told authorities after his arrest that “it’s a ritual… to marry and sleep with 12-year-old girls.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked Vang’s visa earlier this month, and he was deported back to Laos.
Walz defended the act of mercy at a press conference on Tuesday, saying that deporting a child rapist does not make the US safer.
“Does that make us safe?” Walz asked. “Did that make the kids who were left behind more stable? Did it promote the idea that we can’t all be judged on our worst day?”
Appointed by US President-elect Donald Trump as Secretary of State, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 15, 2025 in Washington, DC (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Still, Walz admitted that Vang’s crimes were “horrific.”
The State Department took Walz over the coals for downplaying Vang’s crimes.
“Walz is siding with foreign criminals. Secretary Rubio is siding with the American people,” Johnson told Fox News Digital about the governor’s comments. “Walz wants open borders. This administration ended the era of mass immigration. Walz put Americans at risk. Secretary Rubio protected them.”
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After last week’s announcement that the State Department had rescinded Walz’s pardon and fired Vang anyway, Rubio blasted Walz for giving Vang clemency in the first place.
“Americans should never have to live in fear that foreign abusers — protected from deportation by their elected officials — could endanger themselves or their children,” he told Fox News Digital.
“That’s why I terminated his legal position in the United States,” he continued. “Vang has now been removed from our country and will never again be a threat to any American.”
Mugshot of Tue Lue Vang, an illegal Laotian child rapist deported to the United States. (Department of Homeland Security)
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At the time of Vang’s pardon, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) feared the move would protect the illegal felon from deportation.
“Governor Tim Walz’s decision to pardon a convicted illegal child rapist so he can stay in our country is abhorrent,” DHS Acting Secretary Lauren Bis said at the time.
“These are illegal immigrants who are protecting and politicians in his own state of Minnesota.”
