Minnesota Democrat State Rep. Kaohly Vang Her delivers a speech claiming she is an illegal alien. Credit: Minnesota State Legislature Web broadcast
A Democrat state legislator who previously claimed to be an illegal migrant won a mayoral election.
Democratic State Rep. Kaohly Vang Her prevailed in an upset Tuesday night in the St. Paul mayoral election, defeating incumbent Democrat Mayor Melvin Carter after second-choice votes. The city uses ranked-choice voting in local elections.
She is the first woman and Hmong elected in the city’s history.
Official election results showed her edging Carter by three points, 48%-45%.
Back in June, Vang Her claimed she was an illegal alien on the Minnesota House floor.
“My father, as the one processing the paperwork, put my grandmother down as his mother, and so I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country,” Democrat state Rep. Kaohly Vang Her said.
Vang Her made the remarks during a hearing on a bill to modify MinnesotaCare coverage eligibility to include illegal immigrants.
BREAKING: A Minnesota State Representative just admitted to being an illegal immigrant on the MN House Floor just now.
Now that’s bold. @ICEgov pic.twitter.com/pD1fC8m6Nq
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) June 9, 2025
Later that day, the state representative backtracked, telling the Minnesota Reformer that she and her parents were American citizens.
She said she made the claim in an attempt to garner empathy from her GOP colleagues.
Vang Her did maintain that her father broke the law when filling out refugee paperwork for her family.
Vang Her claims on her website that her family came to the US as refugees from Laos.
My name is Kaohly Vang Her. Born in Laos, my family came to the United States as refugees when I was four years old. I grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, a paper town where my father worked at the local paper factory and my mother as a teacher’s aide.
As our family expanded, my parents worked multiple jobs to make ends meet. There were periods of my life where my family struggled financially but my parents never gave up on the dream of what America could provide.
ICE needs to determine whether Vang Her was telling the truth when she made that June speech or in her other remarks.
The fact that she can audaciously claim to be residing in America illegally and then get elected mayor is a sobering development.
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