Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pardons a Hmong community leader arrested by ICE.

Lue Vang, a father of six, is the president of the Hmong Family Association of Lansing.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has pardoned an immigrant who was arrested in July by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is facing potential deportation to Laos, despite living in the U.S. since he was 1 year old.

After months of activism by immigrant and Asian-American advocacy groups, Whitmer on Wednesday, Oct. 22, issued a pardon for Lue Yang, a Hmong refugee who is a father of six, an engineer and the president of the Hmong Family Association of Lansing. Yang is a citizen of Laos who was convicted of home invasion in the second degree and was ordered removed from the U.S. in 2001, ICE said.

“Yesterday, I granted a pardon fo

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