Child Molester Picked Up by INS

A Hmong child molester whose sentence of 24 years’ probation and English language lessons sparked outrage was taken into custody by immigration officials. Anyone convicted of a felony is subject to deportation. Immigration and Naturalization Service officials say they began deportation proceedings against Sia Ye Vang after he was convicted in July of four counts of first-degree sexual assault of his then-10- and 11-year-old stepdaughters. Vang, who had been in La Crosse as part of a sex offenders program, was being held without bond at the INS processing center in Broadview, Ill., said Gail Montenegro, an INS spokeswoman in Chicago.