
The Democrat mayor of St. Paul who once confessed on the floor of the Minnesota House that she is “an illegal in this country” now finds herself at the center of an entirely new controversy.
In June 2025, then-state Rep. Kaohly Her (DFL) told her colleagues that her father got her family into America from Laos by falsifying immigration paperwork. A few months later, Her — now a U.S. citizen and a vociferous critic of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — was elected mayor of St. Paul.
‘The mayor has deep respect for city employees.’
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Like her father, Her also apparently has a strained relationship with the law — or at least with law enforcement.
The City of Saint Paul has hired Resolute Law, an outside law firm, to
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