Rubio: State Department revokes legal status, deports sex offender pardoned by Walz

A Laotian national convicted of sexually abusing a child has been removed from the United States after the State Department revoked his legal status.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported Tou Lue Vang one month after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pardoned him for his crimes, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a video Friday.

“Just weeks ago, a convicted sex offender and a foreign national was shielded from deportation by the governor of Minnesota,” Rubio said of Vang, who repeatedly sexually abused a 10-year-old girl.

Rubio emphasized that the Trump administration would “always stand with the American people and defend them from violent criminals.”

“Americans must never be forced by their elected leaders to live alongside foreign sex criminals who have no right to reside in our country to begin with.”

Watch the video: