AFPI on the Walz-Ellison Pardon: Minnesota’s Leaders Handed a Child Rapist a Clean Slate

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) today released the following statement after the Minnesota Board of Pardons cleared the record of Tou Lue Vang, an illegal alien convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. The pardon strips away the convictions that made him deportable, just a week before he was set to be removed from the country.

Zach Freimark, Executive Director of AFPI Minnesota, responded:

"A convicted child rapist was one week from deportation, and Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison went out of their way to wipe his record clean and keep him here. Let that sink in. A man who repeatedly assaulted a 10-year-old girl and tried to buy her silence for ten dollars is walking free with a pardon. This is what their sanctuary politics protects, and our children are the ones who pay for it. It is disgraceful, and every family in this state should be furious."

The America First Policy Institute stands for a simple principle: protect the innocent, hold the guilty accountable, and put American families first. We condemn Minnesota's leaders who just failed all three principles.

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