A foreign criminal who repeatedly raped a 10-year-old girl and tried to buy her silence was days from deportation when Minnesota Democrats, led by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, stepped in to protect him.
Now, Minnesota’s flagship paper, The Minnesota Star Tribune, is facing backlash after columnist Rochelle Olson’s article “Cheers to Gov. Tim Walz,” praised the governor for his decision to defend the pardon.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Laotian illegal alien pedophile Tou Lue Vang repeatedly raped a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota in 2004 and was issued a deportation order.
Vang even blamed the child and said it’s a “cultural thing to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12.”
Vang served ZERO prison time after pleading guilty.
However, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and the Democrat-controlled Board of Pardons Tim Walz pardoned Vang, which shielded him from deportation.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, however, put an end to the madness and announced that Vang’s legal status was revoked and “as a result, federal agents took him into custody, and as of today, he has been removed from the United States.”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.”
Olson, while failing to note that the rape victim was a MINOR and was assaulted several times over a two-year period, wrote, “The governor refused to back down from his vote to pardon a Hmong man convicted of felony sexual assault in 2006. It’s significant that Tou Lue Vang needed only two of three votes from the state Board of Pardons, but he received unanimous support.”
Olson then raged about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protestors, comparing their actions to a foreigner raping a child.
“Vang’s actions 20 years ago were awful, but so were the violent protests at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and those folks received presidential pardons,” Olson wrote.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, (R-MN) responded on X, “The Minnesota Star Tribune is cheering on Tim Walz protecting an illegal alien monster who raped a 10 year old girl. No one should read this depraved rag.”
“They are sick.”
The Minnesota Star Tribune is cheering on Tim Walz protecting an illegal alien monster who raped a 10 year old girl. No one should read this depraved rag. They are sick. pic.twitter.com/loNtPef8Sm
— Tom Emmer (@GOPMajorityWhip) July 19, 2026
Media Watch MN added, Just another day at @StarTribune with left wing hack Rochelle Olson comparing child rape to disorderly conduct.”
Just another day at @StarTribune with left wing hack Rochelle Olson comparing child rape to disorderly conduct. pic.twitter.com/RNXf1WnffX
— Media Watch Minnesota (@MediaWatchMN) July 18, 2026
Writer David Burke stated, “A writer for the Minnesota Star Tribune, in a piece called ‘Cheers to Gov. Tim Walz,’ writer Rochelle Olson praised Walz for pardoning child rapist, Tou Lue Vang. Olson failed to mention the child was 10 years old & raped several times. This is what amounts to ‘journalism’ today.”
A writer for the Minnesota Star Tribune, in a piece called “Cheers to Gov. Tim Walz,” writer Rochelle Olson praised Walz for pardoning child rapist, Tou Lue Vang. Olson failed to mention the child was 10 years old & raped several times. This is what amounts to “journalism” today.…
— David Burke 🇺🇸 (@ConservativeTht) July 20, 2026
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