Newly disclosed records reviewed by Fox News Digital show that the reason the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission recommended a pardon for child rapist Tue Lue Vang is that they decided that it would be too cruel to remove him from the country.
Commissioner Zach Lindstrom said it was “a very tough case” but concluded that “the kids not having a father is not in the best interests of society.” Is that true when the father is a criminal child rapist?
Vang admitted to having sexual intercourse with the 10-year-old child repeatedly until she was 12. It occurred multiple times and left the little girl “angry” and “sad.”
Vang said he made a “mistake,” but it’s a “minor thing” in our culture in Thailand. We have sex with girls as young as 12.
Of course, he was in America for two decades. It’s not our culture, which he had to know. Also, the child was 10, not 12.
The judge said Vang seemed to have no insight at all into what it did to the little girl.
Despite no evidence of remorse, Commissioner Perry Moriarity wrote that, given the extraordinary severity of the underlying offense, there was substantial evidence of rehabilitation, remorse, and acceptance of responsibility.
Vang whined that he’d have to “live in a place unfamiliar to him, with no family, no home, no future.” He should have thought of that before he raped a little girl.
The federal government was unmoved. Secretary Rubio said that Americans should never have to live in fear of foreign sex predators, shielded from deportation by their own elected officials, so they can endanger them or their children.
Secretary Rubio said, “That’s why I terminated his legal status in the United States. Vang has now been removed from our country and will never pose a threat to Americans ever again.”
Gov. Tim Walz still doesn’t understand why he was deported. These leftist Democrats give no thought to victims. However, they feel very sorry for the criminals.
Vang was here illegally and never belonged here in the first place. He is a man of extremely poor character. He never even served time for the rape and blamed the child in part, saying she let him. The final decision to pardon him so he wouldn’t be deported was made by Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minnesota’s Chief Justice Natalie Hudson. They wanted him to have a “second chance.” And then chance him raping another child?
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says he does not believe deporting an illegal alien who raped a 10 year-old girl makes his state safer. pic.twitter.com/0SufCtc2og
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