Khaby Lame, considered the most popular Tiktok star in the world, has left the United States after being detained by immigration officials.
Friday, the influencer was detained in Las Vegas for having pretended to stay in the country after the expiration of his visa. He then left voluntarily, but the officials did not say what day he left.
The blade is one of the hundreds of people taken in the repression of the immigration of the American president Donald Trump, who includes substantive raids and an increasing number of deportations, and who also triggered days of protest against immigration and the application of customs.
The blade did not comment publicly his voluntary departure, letting fans guess when he left and where he is now.
Ice said he had arrived in the United States on April 30, then exceeded his visa.
The officials said he was released the same day that he had been arrested and left the country afterwards.
A voluntary departure allows people who face the elimination of the United States to avoid having an expulsion order on their immigration file. Deportation orders can prevent immigrants from being authorized in the United States up to a decade.
The 25-year-old Senegalese-Italian influencer, which has 162.3 million Tiktok followers, became popular during the pandemic for his silent videos and his facial signature expressions.
“It is my face and my expressions that make people laugh,” said blade at the New York Times in 2021, adding that his reactions speak “a world language”.
As an Italian citizen, he is authorized to go to the United States for business or tourism up to 90 days without visa.
Blade attended the gala put in May. Otherwise, we don’t know what he was doing in the United States.
His expulsion made the headlines because he is one of the most prominent people to be expelled in Trump’s last wave to reduce illegal immigration to the country.
Some 51,000 undocumented migrants were in possession of immigrants and customs (ICE) in early June – the highest ever recorded since September 2019.
