Yes, the media is wackadoodle
Marco Rubio announces deportation of Minnesota man pardoned last month
A Laotian man pardoned by state officials in Minnesota last month has been deported from the country, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has announced.
Tou Lue Vang, an immigrant from Laos, faced deportation for a 2006 conviction of first-degree criminal sexual conduct after raping a young girl between 2002 and 2004. Because Laos initially refused to accept deportees, Vang spent nearly two decades living in Minnesota.
In December 2025, federal authorities detained him during a massive immigration crackdown, and a federal judge later ordered his release from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in February 2026.
What kind of immigrant? Yes, illegal alien
In June, Vang was pardoned by the Minnesota board of pardons after he expressed remorse for his actions and a letter from his victim said she forgave him, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported.
In a letter obtained by the Star Tribune, the victim explained that she had “made my peace” and forgiven Vang. “He is not the same person now. I have seen how he has changed,” the letter reads.
But the Trump administration has used the case to accuse Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, and other state Democratic officials of protecting immigrants from deportation.
“This week I revoked his legal status in the United States and, as a result, federal agents took him into custody and, as of today, he has been removed from the United States,” Rubio said, referring to Vang, in a video statement posted on Friday. “Because of our action, this foreign criminal will never pose a threat to any American ever again.”
She can forgive him all she wants, but, he was in the US illegally and he’s a convicted rapist. Why are Democrats so insistent on protecting these people?

A Laotian man pardoned by state officials in Minnesota last month has been deported from the country, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has announced.

And Rimjob weeps…
I guess “Marco Rubio announces deportation of child rapist pardoned last month” wasn’t the headline The Guardian wanted to use.
This is why Donald Trump is a better President than George Bush was. So, Laos wouldn’t accept him back? BFD! Send him to Thailand, drive him across the country, and kick his scanky ass across the border into Laos.
We do not have to accept illegal immigrants from countries because they ‘refuse’ to accept their citizens back. Just haul them over and dump them there, because we can.
Ooopsie!
Trump Tower raider by dOyj!
Secret floor safe behind marble panel going and opened.
Hand returned ledger in His Majesty:d own hand writing going containing 878 million in foreign financial disclosures going NOT previously disclosed mandated to be disclosed and in conflict with his sworn statements
2 sets of books.
1 in his own handwriting
Classic !
It is always the cover up that gets them
The fact that this person was not departed… but rather deported means that he will be back. There is only one way to stop predators like him. Citizen style.!
I am against deporting some classes of criminals. They should be executed within a year of being caught. There is always the risk they will return if you deport them, but also you are turning loose a known risk onto his home country.
With modern air travel, you can just put him on the plane here and he gets off the plan in Laos. If he fails to get through customs there, not our problem.