LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Lue Yang, the St. John’s man whom Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pardoned last week , remains in custody.

Yang — a Hmong refugee who came to the U.S. in the 1970s as a child refugee — was taken into ICE custody in July as he arrived to work in Lansing.

Yang previously got into legal trouble as a minor. When he was 17, he pled guilty to breaking and entering and spent 10 months in jail before turning his life around.

He began the nonprofit Hmong Family Association of Lansing and became a leader in the community.

Whitmer pardoned Yang — a husband and father to six children — on Oct. 22 in an attempt to prevent his deportation. The pardon sets aside Yang’s conviction, allowing him to move forward without the offense on his record, though his conviction was already expunge

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