During a debate Monday on Medicaid eligibility, Democratic State Rep. Kaohly Vang Her of Minnesota said her parents committed immigration fraud to enter the United States and then claimed she was a U.S. citizen.
The Minnesota House of Representatives on Monday passed legislation to declare illegal immigrants ineligible for MinnesotaCare, the state’s Medicaid program. Her made the comments on the floor of the state house. She then rushed to a local media outlet to clarify her comments. (RELATED: ‘Important And Heroic Thing’: Mike Johnson Defends Medicaid Reforms In ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill)
“I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country,” Her said on the floor as all but one Democrat in the Minnesota House of Representatives voted against the legislation.
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Her later did an interview with the Minnesota Reformer, where she claimed she and her parents were American citizens.
“Technically, you would say my father broke the law, right? But we would have come anyway,” Her said to the Reformer.
Her told the Reformer that her father claimed to be related to a family friend who worked for the United States Agency for International Development in order to hasten the family’s entry into the United States to avoid reprisals from communists. She claimed she told the story to try to make Republicans feel empathy for immigrants.
“The truth is until people see a face with somebody and a situation, it is really easy for us to other each other, and, as somebody who’s been marginalized because of who I am my whole life, I never want to do that to somebody else,” Her told the Reformer.
The reconciliation bill moving through Congress includes reforms to Medicaid, which helps provide health coverage for low-income people in the United States, including an effort to end the use of the program by illegal immigrants.
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