Saturday, 14 June 2025

Minnesota Lawmaker BACKTRACKS Her Statement On Legal Status

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On Monday, Democrat state representative Kaohly Her of Minnesota revealed on the Minnesota House floor that she can to the U.S. illegally.

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Rep. Her’s announcement immediately resulted in calls for her to be deported.

Now she has switched her tune.

The Minnesota Reformer gave these key details:

Rep. Kaohly Her, DFL-St. Paul, revealed a stunning detail about herself during a debate on the Minnesota House floor Monday: She came to the United States as a child illegally.

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“I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country,” Her said.

Her said she was trying to inspire empathy in her Republican colleagues, who were about to vote to take away state-funded health care for adults in Minnesota without permanent legal status.

“I tell you this story because I want you to think about who it is that you are calling illegal,” Her told House Republicans on the floor. “My family was just smarter in how we illegally came here. We had more privileges and more ability, which is why we came here in that way.”

The fourth-term lawmaker’s remarks quickly ignited a firestorm in right-wing media, which questioned her legal status and ability to cast a vote in U.S. elections. One of her Republican colleagues, Rep. Walter Hudson, R-Albertville, called for her to be investigated, and she’s already receiving threats and insults on social media.

In an interview with the Reformer, Her clarified that she and her parents are U.S. citizens. Her is a refugee from Laos and moved to the U.S. when she was three. Her’s parents took their U.S. citizenship test, and Her became a citizen as a minor when she was in middle school, she said.

Her said her father technically broke the law when he filled out paperwork for the family to come to the U.S. as refugees. He did so to expedite the process to come to the U.S., though they would have come to America anyway.

Her came to America along with a wave of Hmong refugees, who were critical allies to the United States during the Vietnam War and the “secret war” in Laos, assisting in intelligence operations, disrupting north Vietnamese supply routes and combating communism’s spread through Southeast Asia. Her’s grandfather was a colonel in the war, she said. As American allies, they faced violent recriminations from the communists after the war, which is why the U.S. welcomed them here, especially through laws like the Refugee Act of 1980.


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