Kaohly Her has one of the most striking background stories in US politics – a Hmong refugee born in a bamboo hut in the mountains of Laos who came to the US aged three as part of a Vietnam-war-era resettlement program.
Now, as the newly installed mayor of Saint Paul, the city twinned with Minneapolis, she has emerged as an important figure in Minnesota, the solidly Democratic state targeted by the Trump administration’s exercise of controversial immigration policies.
