DHS Blasts Media for Suggesting That Accused Illegal Immigrant Pedophiles in Minnesota Had a ‘Cultural Misunderstanding’

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is skewering the media for suggesting that the alleged illegal immigrant pedophiles arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of operations in Minneapolis had a fundamental “cultural misunderstanding.”

DHS detailed the several Laotian and Thai criminal illegal aliens who were arrested as part of the operation. Some had convictions of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14, and others had rap sheets including 2nd degree sexual assault of a child.

The Minnesota Star put it this way: “The deportations bring anxiety to the Hmong community, and accusations of cultural misunderstanding.”

It continued:

Cher Her of St. Paul, a surgical instrument repair technician who was there buying medicinal herbs, said people with extensive, violent criminal records deserve deportation.

But he also pointed out the cultural complications in a Hmong culture where people marry much younger than in America. Her married at 16; he’s now 41, married to the same woman and has eight kids. He’s been a U.S. citizen for decades. He worries how shifting deportation tactics could affect his brother, who got in trouble with the law as a teen but has since matured, with a job, a wife and a family.

“Rather than defend American victims, the Minnesota Star Tribune sympathized with convicted child sexual predators,” DHS wrote in response {snip}

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