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She Told Everyone She Was Illegal, They Made Her Mayor, and Now She's Under Investigation for Sexual Harassment

Kaohly Vang Her became the first woman and first Hmong American mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, after winning election in November 2025. Her parents fled Laos in 1976. She publicly identified herself as an illegal immigrant. Voters chose her anyway.

Seven months later, her own police chief is accusing her of illegal conduct against city employees.

St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry sent a letter alleging that "Mayor Her has engaged in illegal conduct towards City employees." The letter goes further: "You are also aware that Mayor Her has used one or more mobile phones to communicate inappropriate, and, indeed, unlawful text messages." Chief Henry sat for two interviews with police investigators as part of the probe.

The mayor's office released a statement saying she "regrets any unintended impact her actions may have had."

City Attorney Irene Cao is now involved in what has become a formal investigation into the mayor's conduct — less than seven months into her tenure. St. Paul is also dealing with budget problems and controversy over homeless encampment clearance plans, because apparently one category of dysfunction wasn't enough.

The layers here are genuinely remarkable. A woman tells voters she's in the country illegally. The voters of St. Paul — a city of over 300,000 people, the state capital of Minnesota — elect her mayor. The police chief then accuses her of sending unlawful text messages to city employees. And her defense is that she didn't mean for anyone to be affected by whatever she sent.

Left-wing commentators spent years arguing that immigration status shouldn't disqualify anyone from participating in civic life. The argument was always theoretical — about dignity, about belonging, about who gets to call themselves American. Nobody stress-tested the theory against a scenario where the person in question would also allegedly harass the employees she's supposed to lead.

Every institution that could have intervened at any point along this timeline chose not to. Immigration enforcement didn't act on a public declaration. Voters didn't treat it as disqualifying. And now the city's own police chief is the one raising the alarm — not about her status, but about her conduct in office.

She told them exactly who she was. They gave her the keys to city hall.

Turns out the keys weren't the problem.

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