The recently reelected mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, isn’t the only noncitizen who won in Tuesday’s elections.
So also is the mayor-elect of St. Paul, Minnesota, far-left Democrat Kaohly Her. Not only is she not a citizen, but she is an illegal alien. She proudly divulged that interesting fact in June on the floor of the Minnesota House, where she served as a representative for District 64A.
By the lights of state law, Her, a Laotian Hmong illegal, is ineligible to serve as a mayor, let alone a state lawmaker.
Puff Piece
After Her’s illegal victory on Tuesday, The Minnesota Star Tribune stepped forward with the usual tongue-bath profile.
“No one should ever again underestimate St. Paul’s Mayor-elect Kaohly Her,” the newspaper gushed:
That sounds obvious now that Her, a Hmong immigrant from Laos who arrived in this country as a toddler, became the first woman and Hmong person elected mayor of the city Tuesday night. But let’s take a moment to appreciate where Her came from and what she’s accomplished, and to savor this moment of possibility. …
Her, who has a professional background in financial services, took her first job in politics as a policy aide to [incumbent Mayor Melvin] Carter. She’s been in the Minnesota House since 2019 and was a confidante and ally to the late DFL [Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party] Speaker Melissa Hortman.
One of Her’s biggest public moments came in June when she declared from the House floor, “I am illegal in this country,” telling the story of her Hmong parents’ perilous journey from Laos after the “Secret War.”
Maybe, but that snippet doesn’t include Her’s full remarks. She also admitted that her parents are illegals.
Strangely, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did nothing after the confession. That permitted her to win the election over “two-term DFL incumbent Mayor Melvin Carter III, a legacy politician,” the Star Tribune explained:
His father, Melvin Jr., was a St. Paul cop, and his mother, Toni Carter, was a longtime Ramsey County commissioner who is now a member of the Metropolitan Council.
Upshot: Illegal-alien Democrats can now boot black Democratic Americans out of office, and no one bats an eye.
Minnesota Law
Not that Democrats will care, but Minnesota law is quite clear about who is eligible to hold elected office in the state, and who is eligible to vote.
“All candidates” for public office must meet four requirements, the secretary of state’s website says. They
must be eligible to vote in Minnesota [emphasis added]
must have not filed for another office at the upcoming primary or general election
must be 21 years of age or more upon assuming office
must have maintained residence in their district for at least 30 days before the general election
Illegal aliens and other noncitizens are ineligible to vote, the website also explains:
To vote you must be:
A U.S. citizen [emphasis added]
At least 18 years old on Election Day
A resident of Minnesota for 20 days
Not currently incarcerated for a felony conviction
Not under a court order that revokes your right to vote
Anyone who is not eligible to vote but knowingly does so commits a felony, state law says. That law says, again, that a voter must “be a citizen of the United States.”
Whether Her has voted illegally is unclear. Regardless, state law forbids her from not only voting, but also holding public office because she is not an eligible voter.
Deport Her; Deport Kansas Mayor
On X, the calls have begun for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest and deport the illegal alien.
“Deport her, @RealTomHoman,” GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama wrote.
“Unreal,” Libs of TikTok wrote. “She needs to be deported, @DHSgov.”
Wrote former West Virginia legislator Derrick Evans, “She either needs to be deported or admit she lied to get votes.”
Her is at least the second noncitizen illegally elected this week. Though unlike Mayor Jose Ceballos of Coldwater, Kansas, who won reelection on Tuesday, she won’t likely be charged by far-left state authorities.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has charged Ceballos, a Mexican but legal resident of the United States, with three counts of “voting without being qualified” and three counts of “election perjury.”
Again, whether Her has cast illegal votes in state or federal elections is unclear. But that is immaterial to her ineligibility to serve in the state House of Representatives, and now, apparently, as mayor of St. Paul.
Today, ICE reposted its warning to illegals: “It’s simple: Self-deport or be deported. The choice is yours!”
