Sec. Rubio Revokes the Legal Status of a Convicted Sexual Predator Who Was Pardoned by Tim Walz: ‘He Has Been Removed from the U.S.’

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RUBIO: "Just weeks ago, a convicted sex offender and a foreign national was shielded from deportation by the governor of Minnesota. Laotian national Tou Lue Vang was convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing 10-year old girl in state of Minnesota. He even tried to pay his victim for her silence, and he called those heinous crimes 'a minor thing.' Just days before this foreign sex offender was scheduled to be deported, Tim Walz, the governor, issued him a pardon, setting him free to once again endanger the children of America. Well, 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. Because of our action, this foreign criminal will never pose a threat to any American ever again, Americans must never be forced by their elected leaders to live alongside foreign sex criminals who have no right to begin with to reside in our country. This administration will always stand with the American people and defend them from violent criminals."