Homeland Security Nazis have gone ballistic because a cancer-fighting Hmong man was pardoned by the Minnesota Pardon Board, frustrating a deportation effort. The Pardon Board is a body requiring unanimous agreement among three members, the Governor, the Attorney General, and the Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. The Nazis wanted to deport him over the State crime he committed. The pardon frustrated that. The Board was, decades ago, created over citizen unrest over pardon power exercise by a past Governor then empowered to solely make pardon decisions. So, the State's decision the Nazis do not like had that solid multi-official basis to it. (And Nazi is a personal Crabgrass description judgment, the ICE goons are not officially Nazi, just mirroring that status in ICE leadership, mood and mode of operation.)
The Hmong are with us because of the recruitment role they had as fighters for the CIA secret Laos war during Vietnam. The Ho Chi Minh trail went in Laos and Cambodia parallel to the Vietnam west border. The secret war was primarily to impede traffic on the trail. And to fight the Red Scare in Laos. They were a highlands people, an isolated culture at the time, and the Laotian War ran for years. It is documented on the web for any reader wanting to research it. A General Vang was the leader of the Hmong war forces during the time. He was part of the refugee bloc settled into Minnesota and the Hmong have, to use Emmer's term, assimilated.
St. Paul, MN, has a Hmong mayor. While is Seattle a home I'd occupied was sold from an estate during a crazy pricing period for a bit ovre a million dollars to a Hmong hospital emergency room physician. The Hmong in their population segment still practice organic agriculture and nationwide are regular farmers' market vendors. That part of their original Laotian culture remains.
After the Vietnam exodus reporting from time to time was about Thai refugee camps. That was the Hmong warrior families before the nation realized responsibility for making them refugees via The War, and had the conscience to allow them to emigrate here.
A similar story applies to the Somali emigration to the US. After the US embassy bombings in Africa the CIA was tasked with tracking down two key al Quada bombing masterminds who'd fled to Somalia. The Somali Americans Emmer trashes were the one clan that was willing to cooperate with the CIA, and the two perps were hunted down and are no longer alive. Cooperation with the CIA was not a popular thing and a Somali majority at the time was hostile to the segment that emigrated to the US.
They had a culture left behind, as did the Hmong, and are assimilating as an entire community, with their start on that process being decades later than the Hmong.
Back to the Hmong and assimilation needing understanding - Years earlier closer after the abandonment of Vietnam by the nation, a housing bloc in Seattle housing recent Hmong immigrants encountered scrutiny when the Hmong group there were growing opium poppies, a normal traditional medicine in their culture. No big SNAFU, it was a simple telling them it was not allowed stateside. They conformed. It made the newspapers, and the story can be found on the web, even as it is decades old. But assimilation is the main story, and Mr. Emmer can take his Somali hate and shove it.
Also, assimilation is not an instant thing, habits take time to change. But, Bottom Line, Americans are Americans, and those of refugee backgrounds of recruitment bu and service for the CIA and have encountered homeland grief over it are owed something, the CIA cannot simply be allowed to discard its service providers as no longer of value after the CIA effort has failed. These are human being groups that put themselves at a disadvantage, for CIA pranks and fronts, and we as a nation accept tnem slowly into citizenship and prosperity, electing a mayor, med school grads, etc.
And then -- there is Mr. Emmer. Mr. Short Fuse and hate-'em as a politically charged decision Emmer. Wishing we in MN CD6, had better, we presently do not. But will.
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This is the Trump administration specifically targeting Tim Walz. See: here and here.
Do they fear Walz as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, as more genuine and less a stiff than JD? Or are they aiming to divert attention from Trump failures and Epstein, or possibly just unable to restrain themselves while the war loss consequences are working out unfavorably to Trump/JD?
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Rickey Chandee. May 4, 2026.
FURTHER: Compare those at-risk humanitarian pardons, to the genesis of their grief:
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s rejection of Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship via executive order — a blatantly unconstitutional effort that should have been immediately rebuked by the court — right-wingers descended into a full-blown ethnonationalist frenzy that ventured into outright eugenics.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, himself the descendant of European refugees from 20th-century pogroms and the Holocaust, told Fox News that the Trump administration would be taking “a hard look” at banning all pregnant women from entering the country.
Miller, the architect of Trump’s most draconian and inhumane immigration policies, complained to Fox News that “people from all over the world from third-world nations — nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel — they can just come into the country, have a baby, and then that baby is automatically a citizen?”
“The baby can sit on a jury when he turns eighteen, and sit in judgment of you, and sit in judgment of me,” a hysterical Miller railed to host Jesse Watters.
The entire world in one sense does sits in judgment of that hate filled person.
That individual caused all the pardon board special effort to save a few from the intense insensible hate Stephen Miller emanates, even without speaking.
Salon, a year ago -
ICE agents stake out immigration hearings for people with refugee status and round up people here with work or student visas for minor offenses like speeding tickets, all to get the numbers up. But these actions were not enough for Miller.
"Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?” he reportedly screamed at ICE officials. One ICE leader protested that the agency's lead, Tom Homan, said they're supposed to be going after criminals, not people who are just working everyday jobs. Miller reportedly hit the ceiling, furious that arrests aren't widespread and indiscriminate. Trump has repeatedly implied he was only targeting criminals, but as Charles Davis reported at Salon, that conflicts with his promise of "mass deportations." Undocumented immigrants commit crimes at far lower rates than native-born Americans. The expansive efforts to find and arrest immigrants in California, which kicked off the protests, appear to be a direct reaction to Miller's orders to grab as many people as possible, regardless of innocence.
For Miller, the goal of "mass deportations" has never been about law and order, but about the fantasy of a white America.
But Miller doesn't seem to care about crime. Or, perhaps he thinks having darker skin should be a crime. For Miller, the goal of "mass deportations" has never been about law and order, but about the fantasy of a white America. His desire to deport his way to racial homogeneity has always been not only deeply immoral, but pretty much impossible. His impotence shouldn't breed complacency, however. As the violence in Los Angeles shows, petty rage can lead to all manner of evils.
Ask Tom Emmer about Miller. Crabgrass expects Emmer would say, "A nice guy." And then talk to you about crypto.