TikTok megastar Khaby Lame has departed the United States voluntarily after he was detained by ICE.
An ICE spokesperson revealed in a statement obtained by DailyMail.com that Lame – an Italian citizen born in Senegal – was detained by the agency on June 6 due to ‘immigration violations’ after entering the U.S. on April 30.
Khaby – whose full name is Seringe Khabane Lame – was granted voluntary departure and has now left the country.
‘U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Seringe Khabane Lame, 25, a citizen of Italy, June 6, at the Harry Reid International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada for immigration violations. Lame entered the United States April 30 and overstayed the terms of his visa. Lame was granted voluntary departure June 6 and has since departed the U.S.’
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Lame for comment.
Conservative influencer Bo Loudon appears to be the one who first revealed the detention, as he claimed to have reported Lame on June 6 and posted an alleged screenshot from the ICE website stating the influencer was at Henderson Detention Center in Nevada (Lame’s name does not currently appear in the ICE detainee database).
Since the detention, he has managed to remain active on social media. On June 7, he posted a photo of what appeared to be Venice Beach to his Instagram Stories, and a video was also shared to his TikTok (the app states the post was uploaded ‘one day ago’).
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Since taking power in January, US President Donald Trump has delivered on campaign promises to tighten immigration controls and carry out a mass deportation drive – aspects of which have been challenged in US courts.
ICE has been conducting raids nearly since day one of Trump taking back control of the White House.
There have been hundreds of thousands of arrests and deportations of those in the U.S. illegally since then.
On Friday and Saturday, ICE raids in Los Angeles sparked major protests.
Khaby, who posts posts under the name @khaby.lame and moved from Senegal to Chivasso, close to Turin in Italy aged one. He officially became an Italian citizen in 2022.
He currently has 162.2million followers on TikTok – all of whom can’t seem to get enough of his caustic expressions and exasperated call-outs of other people’s dismal TikToks.
The social media sensation was working as a factory worker when he was made redundant in 2020 at the start of the pandemic.
He previously told the New York Times that he began spending hours of his free time every day posting TikTok videos – and his comedy clips soon started going viral.
One of his popular videos include him deriding a fellow TikToker who cuts himself free from a car door by shearing through his t-shirt – which has had more than 158 million views.
Source: Daily Mail
