Minnesota Democrat Admits She’s In Country Illegally In Live Broadcast
Minnesota State Representative Kaohly Vang Her (DFL–St. Paul) publicly acknowledged on the House floor that she and her family are living in the United States under fraudulent circumstances.
Her admission occurred during a House session on Monday when Her shared a personal story from her childhood during a special session called by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz to consider modifying MinnesotaCare eligibility for illegal migrants.
While the arguments were being made, Her seized the opportunity to share her story of arriving in the U.S., telling her colleagues that she is an illegal immigrant, Fox News reported.
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She mentioned that she has been spending a lot of time with her father, who brought the family to the U.S. at the end of the Vietnam War. At one point, she asked him how he managed to bring the family to America.
She had long believed her family was allowed into the U.S. because her grandfather had served as a colonel during the war. But when she asked her father, he told her that wasn’t the case.
According to the Minnesota lawmaker, her father had worked at the U.S. Consulate, where he was one of the few people who could speak English and type “really fast.” He had relocated to the consulate from the refugee camp where Her, her mother, and her sisters were staying. His job, she said, was to process the paperwork for refugees coming to the United States.
While working at the U.S. Consulate, Her’s family missed their opportunity to go to the U.S. three times, and there was one more chance for them to attempt to go to the U.S.
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Her told her mother the family must have gotten lucky, but her mom responded that it was not luck.
“We did not have our names on that list to come to the U.S.,” Her said, explaining that there was no priority for children of someone who worked for the CIA. “The only people that had names to come to the U.S. were if you were … in the military and you worked for the CIA or worked for USAID.”
Her said her parents worked for a Christian organization, but that didn’t qualify them for entry into the U.S. Ultimately, she said, they were able to find a way by lying on the paperwork to make it happen.
“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,” Her said. “And so, I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country. And when we were fleeing that situation, never one time did my family say, ‘Let’s look at which state has the greatest welfare and which state has the greatest benefits, because that’s the state we’re going to go to.’”
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A Minnesota State Representative just proudly claimed that she’s in the country illegally.
— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) June 9, 2025
This is why every single foreign born person needs to be kicked out of our local and federal government immediately pic.twitter.com/TCTryCG2fC
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“Nobody leaves their country unless they have to leave that country,” she added.
She told the room of lawmakers that she shared her story because she wanted them to consider who they are labeling as illegal immigrants, Fox noted.
Her said while her family was “smarter” in the way they came to the U.S., they nevertheless broke laws to enter and remain in the country.
“I never knew that,” she said. “I just learned that now. So, when you’re thinking about voting no on this bill, you’re voting no against someone like me who paid more into this country than it has ever given to me, that the blood of my grandfather, who died for democracy, that he never received benefits being in this country, and yet he paid taxes his entire life into it.”
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“They didn’t want to leave where they were,” she said. “We are not looking to what state is going to give us the best benefits. We’re looking to just be alive.”
