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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Friday, July 3rd, 2026 And this is your AM Update. Minnesota officials pardon an immigrant convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl, potentially allowing him to avoid deportation.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, both Democrats, and the Walz-appointed state chief justice, granting a pardon to an immigrant from Laos convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl, clearing the conviction that placed him on the verge of deportation. 42-year-old Thu Lu Vang was born in a refugee camp in Thailand after his family fled Laos, entering the US as a child in 1994, receiving legal status under the Clinton administration. According to the criminal complaint shared on X by Fox News' Bill Mollugian, Vang was around 18 when he began abusing the unnamed victim in 2002 The complaint describing repeated assaults in graphic detail, Vang meeting the victim through her older sister, whom he later married, making the victim his sister-in-law.
The abuse beginning before that marriage and continuing afterward for several years. When questioned by a detective following his 2005 arrest, Vang acknowledging the sexual contact but dismissing it as a, quote, minor thing. Vang claiming it was, quote, a cultural thing in Thailand for men to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12
Vang then blaming the victim, telling investigators she should be arrested too because she was, quote, as much at fault. According to DHS, Vang at one point offering his victim $10 to stay quiet about the assaults. Vang later pleading guilty to first degree criminal sexual conduct under an agreement that spared him from prison, instead receiving 30 years of probation. The Ramsey County Attorney's Office, which prosecuted the case, telling the New York Times that the lenient sentence was partly the result of pressure the victim was facing from her own family not to cooperate. Vang's legal status revoked following the conviction, with an immigration judge issuing a final order for his removal in 2006
Vang nevertheless remaining in the US for nearly two decades because Laos largely refused to accept deportees, leaving many immigrants with old removal orders stuck in the United States as our problem. That reality beginning to change after President Trump returned to office, with Laos reportedly accepting more deportees and the administration carrying out hundreds of removals involving people with decades old orders. Federal immigration authorities detaining Vang in December as part of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. With his deportation imminent, Vang then applying for a pardon from the state of Minnesota, citing his rehabilitation, his wife and six children, and arguing that he had taken full responsibility for his actions according to his application, reviewed by the Times. The nine-member Minnesota Clemency Review Commission, considering his application in April, four members voting to recommend the pardon, two voting against it, three absent. The final decision resting with the three-member Minnesota Board of Pardons, made up of Governor Walz, AG. Ellison, and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson. All three voting on June 10th to pardon Vang. The board informing him in a letter that receiving a pardon was a notable achievement and a reflection of the work you've done since your conviction. The pardon supported by a statement from the victim, reading in part, what happened to me was wrong, but I have had many years to think about this. I have made my peace with it. I forgive him. Again, she became his sister-in-law. Governor Walz and AG. Ellison's offices defending the pardon decision to the Times by pointing to the Clemency Commission's recommendation, and the victim's support statement, the pardon removing the conviction that had served as the basis for Vang's removal case, potentially allowing him to remain here along the rest of us in the US. The Department of Homeland Security accusing Minnesota officials of protecting a dangerous foreign criminal from removal. DHS acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Biss releasing a statement, Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting. These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting.