It's been a full week since Secretary of State Marco Rubio intervened to deport Tou Vang, an illegal alien and convicted child rapist who sexually assaulted a child repeatedly over a two-year period. Vang told investigators that sex with children was part of his Laotian culture, and that police should also charge the girl for initiating her own sexual assault. The Department of Homeland Security announced Vang's removal and reminded everyone of the disgusting details of his crime:
Tou Lue Vang, an illegal alien from Laos, had been convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct after he repeatedly assaulted a girl between 2002 and 2004, starting when she was just 10 years old. He once offered his victim $10 to keep quiet about the sexual assaults. When interviewed by police, he tried to justify his actions as “a cultural thing,” and even said that his victim was just as guilty as him and should also be arrested.
Following his conviction, a Department of Justice (DOJ) Immigration Judge issued Vang a final order of removal on October 31, 2006.
It's a measure of how poorly immigration enforcement has functioned over the past couple of decades that Vang remained in the US after his conviction. Reportedly, Laos refused to accept deportees generally, which only changed last year when Donald Trump returned to office and made deportations a key goal of his new administration. Vang had cut a deal that kept him from serving time in prison, but he was still a convicted sex offender in the US illegally, and DHS had Vang in their sights... until Tim Walz intervened with a pardon that erased his conviction altogether.
As I warned at the time, Walz' pardon didn't mean squat about Vang's illegal status in the US, and Rubio booted him as quickly as possible. One might have thought a wise man would just take the L and pretend that he'd never pardoned a child rapist just to score an idiotic point against Orange Man Bad on a policy supported by the vast majority of American voters. We'll return to that point in a moment, but Walz decided yesterday to double down and portray Vang as a victim rather than the child rapist he actually was.
"We can't all be judged by our worst day," said the Democrat nominated by his party to be one heartbeat away from the presidency:
.@GovTimWalz responds to the deportation of a convicted child sex abuser he pardoned:
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 16, 2026
"Did that make us any safer?... Did it improve the idea that we can't all be judged by our worst day?"
Walz is one seriously sick, depraved individual. pic.twitter.com/6qUAR9YeDo
Er ... what? In the first place, we routinely judge people on their "worst days." That's what criminal prosecution does, whether that applies to drunk drivers, domestic violence, carjackings, thefts, and murders. It certainly applies to rapists and child molesters, and Vang is both. Has Walz never heard of criminal prosecution, or does he simply oppose it on the principle of being non-judgey when it comes to preferred classes?
However, let's be clear about Vang's crimes. First off, Vang had entered the country illegally and had never sought to resolve that status, so he didn't belong here in the first place. More seriously, Vang did not have a bad day with a child, which – contra Walz's argument here – would not excuse rape. He spent two years committing a sustained series of rapes and sexual assaults against a preadolescent girl. Two years. And while Vang tried to claim "a cultural thing," he knew well enough about the law to try to bribe his victim to remain quiet about the sexual assaults he had perpetrated on her.
Rather than reflect on that, Walz tried playing out an implied quasi-Christian argument about grace and redemption, which Democrats last used to excuse another accused rapist running for the Senate in Maine. Walz still thinks that defending a child rapist is worth it to make a political argument about deportations and immigration enforcement. However, as the Harvard-Harris CAPS poll has shown for at least the last eighteen months, Americans overwhelmingly want criminal illegals deported, 79 to 21:
Note well that two-thirds of Democrats support the deportation of illegals who have committed crimes. One has to figure that the level of support would rise significantly if the poll asked about sex crimes, and especially sex crimes that victimized children. A majority of voters (55 to 45) support deporting all illegals, and slightly more than a third of Democrats support that as well – significant enough to make it a bipartisan consensus.
In the face of that, Walz is defending a child rapist as a benign presence just to rage against Orange Man Bad. Walz is proving why stepped-up deportations are necessary, because Democrat executives like Walz and mayors around the country will give free passes to criminal illegals rather than put the interests of Americans and legal immigrants first.
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