{"id":11021,"date":"2025-06-11T03:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11021"},"modified":"2025-06-11T03:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:44:55","slug":"popular-tiktok-star-leaves-us-after-being-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11021","title":{"rendered":"Popular TikTok star leaves US after being detained"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LAS VEGAS — <\/span>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Khaby Lame<\/a>, the world\u2019s most popular TikTok<\/a> personality with millions of followers, has left the U.S. after being detained by immigration agents in Las Vegas for allegedly overstaying his visa.<\/p>\n

The Senegalese-Italian influencer, whose legal name is Seringe Khabane Lame, was detained Friday at Harry Reid International Airport but was allowed to leave the country without a deportation order, a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed in a statement.<\/p>\n

Lame arrived in the U.S. on April 30 and \u201coverstayed the terms of his visa,\u201d the ICE spokesperson said. The Associated Press sent a message seeking comment Tuesday to the email address listed on Lame\u2019s Instagram account. He has not publicly commented on his detainment.<\/p>\n

His detainment and voluntary departure from the U.S. comes amid President Donald Trump\u2019s escalating crackdown<\/a> on immigration, including raids in Los Angeles that sparked days of protests against ICE, as the president tests the bounds of his executive authority<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A voluntary departure \u2014 which was granted to Lame \u2014 allows those facing removal from the U.S. to avoid a deportation order on their immigration record, which could prevent them from being allowed back into the U.S. for up to a decade.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old rose to international fame during the pandemic without ever saying a word in his videos, which would show him reacting to absurdly complicated \u201clife hacks.” He has over 162 million followers on TikTok alone.<\/p>\n

The Senegal-born influencer moved to Italy when he was an infant with his working class parents and has Italian citizenship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His internet fame quickly evolved. He signed a multi-year partnership with designer brand Hugo Boss in 2022. In January, he was appointed as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. <\/p>\n

Last month, he attended the Met Gala<\/a> in New York City, days after arriving in the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS — LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Khaby Lame, the world\u2019s most popular TikTok personality with millions of followers, has left the U.S. after being detained by immigration agents in Las Vegas for allegedly overstaying his visa. The Senegalese-Italian influencer, whose legal name is Seringe Khabane Lame, was detained Friday at Harry Reid International Airport […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11023,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions\/11023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}