Khaby Lame Posts on Social Media After ICE Confirms Detaining Him

Khaby Lame, the world’s most popular TikToker, has posted several times on social media since ICE confirmed detaining him. 

According to a statement ICE emailed Men’s Journal on June 7, the agency detained Lame on accusations of immigration violations in Nevada but let him voluntarily leave the country. 

You wouldn’t know that from his social media pages, though, as Lame has posted to both his Instagram story and TikTok page since news went viral that he was arrested by ICE.

Lame posted a video with costumed mascots to TikTok, and he posted several times to his Instagram story, including a photo showing a hand holding a book in a bookstore and a shout-out to an athlete for his birthday. He also posted about Eid Mubarak.

He has more than 162 million TikTok followers.

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News that ICE had taken Lame into custody first broke via an X influencer named Bo Louden, although many people raised questions about the initial report because Lame no longer came up in the ICE detention database. That may be because the agency now says it let him leave the country. Louden wrote that he was the person who reported Lame to ICE.

Here’s the official statement by ICE, which the agency emailed to Men’s Journal on June 7, after Men’s Journal wrote ICE the night before to ask whether it was true the world’s most followed Tiktoker had been arrested. 

ICE statement on Khaby Lame.

ICE

“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,” ICE confirmed to Men’s Journal.

“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.,” ICE wrote. 

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