Trump Department Of Homeland Security Slams Journos For Defending Illegal Immigrant Pedophiles

Trump’s Department of Homeland Security slammed a Minnesota newspaper for suggesting that illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes against children may have just been confused about American culture.

The agency slammed the Minnesota Star Tribune on Wednesday for running an article that said a group of Laotians arrested for child sex crimes may be victims of a “cultural misunderstanding.” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire that the story was one of the worst examples of media coverage of the deportations of convicted criminals.  

“We have seen a lot of gross reporting, but this may take gold for despicable. There is no excuse for anyone to commit crimes against innocent children. These pedophiles are the types of sickos our brave ICE law enforcement officers are putting their lives on the line to arrest and remove from American communities,” she said. 

Last Thursday, the Star Tribune wrote that the Department of Homeland Security was overlooking the fact that Laotians arrested for child sex crimes grew up in a culture where young marriages are normal. 

“Some Hmong Minnesotans say they suspect many of the decades-old arrests that led to the deportations were a result of Hmong culture encouraging girls as young as 14 to date and even marry older men, which is against the law in the United States,” the outlet reported. “Their lives in Southeast Asia often lacked education, several Hmong Minnesotans said, and they often did not understand American laws.”

One of those featured sympathetically in the article was Chia Neng Vue, an illegal alien from Laos who was convicted in 1998 of criminal sexual conduct with a child under the age of 13 and committing a crime for the benefit of a gang. 

Despite a judge ordering his removal in October 2003, Vue continued to rack up a criminal history in the United States. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Vue was arrested at least five more times between 2009 and 2012 for crimes including possession of a gun, first-degree criminal sexual conduct, and domestic abuse.

“This illegal alien repeatedly broke our laws, committed sex and other violent crimes,” McLaughlin told The Daily Wire. “Why does the media continue to peddle sob stories of criminal illegal aliens — including child pedophiles — but ignore their American victims?”

“Instead of glorifying child pedophiles and violent criminal illegal aliens, the Minnesota Star Tribune should be thanking our law enforcement for removing these pedophiles from Minnesota,” she added.

A GoFundMe for Vue mentions that he has a family currently, but described his 1998 conviction for criminal contact with a girl under the age of 13 as part of “some bad decisions as a juvenile.”

The Star Tribune also quoted Democratic-Farmer-Labor State Senator Foung Hawj, who suggested that the ICE operations were overbroad. “Here we are, sending their children back over some petty misdemeanor, or things like early marriage that are transitioned by culture,” he said.

Hawj did not return a request for comment on whether he supported the deportation of Vue. 

The outlet also quoted another woman saying the cultural difference should be examined. 

“It’s seen in the eyes of American culture as, ‘You’re a predator,’” the woman said. “But in Hmong culture, he did nothing wrong.”

Other illegal alien Laotians arrested by Homeland Security Investigations in St. Paul include 44-year-old Yia Xiong, who was convicted of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, and 44-year-old Thong Lao, who was convicted of second-degree sexual assault of a child.