South St. Paul Wife Faces Husband’s Deportation To Laos

In South St. Paul, Linda Yang and her five children are bracing for a sudden upheaval as federal authorities move to deport her husband, Zong Yang, to Laos. The family says Zong, who was born in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand and grew up in the United States, has never set foot in Laos and does not speak the language. His removal, expected in the coming days, would leave the family on a single income and push Linda into a crash course on childcare logistics, bills, and the legal maze around whether he could ever return. The case is…