Minnesota State Representative Claims To Be Illegal For Attention

Even though the state of Minnesota is currently run by Governor Weirdo, Tim Walz, the state legislature is divided. The state Senate has a Democrat majority of one seat, and the state House is split equally, 67 seats to 67 seats.

Yesterday, the state House went into a full uproar as one Democrat representative, Kaohly Vang Her, claimed that she and her family were all in the country illegally during a debate on providing adult illegal aliens free healthcare within the state during a special session of the legislature.

“I am illegal in this country,” Her said in her speech as the chamber was debating House File 1, a proposal that would ban MinnesotaCare coverage for adult undocumented people in the U.S. MinnesotaCare provides healthcare to low-income Minnesotans.

“My family broke the law to come here. I never knew that. I just learned that,” she said. “My family was just smarter in how we illegally came here.”

Her said she recently learned that her family had not been eligible to enter the U.S. but that her parents found a way to do so by altering their immigration paperwork.

“The only people who [could] come to the U.S. were if you were the direct military, you worked for the CIA, or you worked for [the United States Agency For International Development], which is why it’s so personal to me that USAID is getting unfunded,” Her said.

“But we did not do either one of those,” she added. “My parents’ Christian organization did not count.”

“And so what my father did was, one of our uncles worked for USAID, and because his mother had died, my father, as the one processing the paperwork, put my grandmother down as his mother,” the Democratic lawmaker said. “And so I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country.”

Needless to say, the political upset in the Minnesota state House would have been HUGE… if Her was actually telling the truth about being “illegal.”

If the Representative is indeed telling the truth here, and she is determined to be in the country illegally.

The implications would be unprecedented.

The Minnesota State House is currently TIED with 67 Republicans and 67 Democrats. https://t.co/VtgNAci9My

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) June 9, 2025

But once her comments went viral, she was quick to straighten out her legal status. Weird, it’s almost as if she was lying for attention!

Her is a citizen who was a Hmong refugee from Laos with her family in the 1970s. Her’s father found a way to skip a step and get them to the United States faster.

Rep. Her had legal documentation, and she was naturalized in junior high school. Her’s family has since been naturalized as well.

Also: how dare people assume that my family is here illegally… when I said that we got here illegally and we are illegal.

Following her speech on the House floor and subsequent social media outrage, Her released the following statement:

“It’s incredibly disheartening that my floor speech — where I shared my family’s deeply personal immigration story — was twisted into anti-immigrant clickbait. Let me be absolutely clear: my parents are citizens, and so am I. This clickbait directly contradicts the empathy and understanding I sought to foster and instead fueled anti-immigrant narratives with falsehoods. My family story should not have been weaponized to spread misinformation.

“My family came to the United States in 1976. We came legally as refugees of the Vietnam War, where my grandfather was a Colonel, fighting with the CIA, in the Secret War. I have been a citizen for almost four decades. Regardless of how MAGA extremists see me in their eyes, I am legal, and I am a citizen. My family has lived the American Dream. My parents worked honorable blue-collar jobs and built a life for my siblings and me. We completed our education, secured gainful employment, paid our taxes, gave back to our communities, and served in the military and elected office for the very country that gave us a new start.

Translation: people were supposed to feel sorry for her and react emotionally to her plea to keep funding free healthcare for adult illegal aliens. She didn’t expect the blowback, and now it’s everyone else’s fault for making her go viral.

The reality is that it was likely the Democrats in Minnesota – her own party – that forced her to come out with her statement in order to prevent a challenge from state House Republicans. If Kaohly Vang Her had actually been found to be in the country illegally still, then she would be ineligible for office in Minnesota, and would have instantly shifted the balance of power within the state House.

So, Her’s family lied on their paperwork and skipped her father’s mother in order to claim that her father’s grandmother was the parent – which, if I am reading this correctly, allowed Her and family to come in as immediate family members. Yes, the lying on the paperwork, had it been discovered, would have been a complicating factor in their immigration and naturalization. However, since the entire family has now been naturalized, including Kaohly Vang Her, as United States citizens, this entire converation is moot. This was attention whoring at its finest – clout chasing with zero consequences. If the Trump administration decides to go after Her and her family for immigration fraud, she will be a Resistance heroine™ for life, which is a win for her. If they don’t, then she got all the attention and gets to cry that she went viral because her family’s tale of immigration was “weaponized.” Never mind that she loaded the proverbial bullets and shot off the proverbial gun all by herself.

Except the voters now know that Kaohly Vang Her is a liar. Plain and simple. While it sounds like a good idea to investigate Her for being naturalized due to immigration fraud, the reality is that she could have hardly been a party to that fraud as a child. Investigating her parents has a lot more merit, but might not be worth it. She spun an attention-getting viral tale saying that she and her family are illegal, and then had to retract the whole thing when it became clear that her Minnesota state House seat could be in jeopardy, right along with the legislative gridlock. And not only do her constituents know she’s a liar, her future Democrat primary opponents know she’s willing to lie for some viral clickbait. You don’t think some ambitious Democrat who lives in her legislative district won’t try and challenge her? If that should happen, she will have handed that opponent quite a lot of campaign material.

Oh, and that bill to strip adult illegal aliens of free health care in Minnesota? It passed by one vote, and Tim Walz had already said he would sign it as part of a budget deal. Hope the viral clickbait moment was worth it for Kaohly Vang Her and her Resistance™ street cred!

Featured image: Kaohly Vang Her in 2019 by Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia Commons, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0

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