DHS blasts Minnesota board for unanimously pardoning illegal immigrant convicted of 3 assaults

The US Department of Homeland Security criticized Minnesota's Board of Pardons for pardoning Xayasounethone Chandee, a Laotian national convicted of three assaults, which may block his deportation order. Chandee was convicted of assault in 1992 and again in 2008 for two felony counts of aggravated assault with a weapon. The pardon decision has sparked controversy over immigration policies.