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World’s most popular TikTok star Khaby Lame leaves the US after being detained by ICE

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World’s most popular TikTok star Khaby Lame leaves the US after being detained by ICE | CNN

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was detained Friday at Harry Reid International Airport but was allowed to leave the country without a deportation order
Was he already at the airport leaving the country before being detained and asked to leave the country? This feels like just trying to pump up reporting numbers.
- He was on like day 30 of a 90-day visa and was heading to his scheduled flight out of the country. Afaik, they had no reason to pick him up, they just like sitting around in the air conditioning to pick people up at airports and courthouses instead of chasing them across fields or something more exercise-y like that.
  
  If he was on day 30 of 90 why was ICE saying he "overstayed"? Is this some kind of technicality not mentioned or is ICE straight up lying (as usual)?
  
  He's not a violent criminal, of course that's who the authorities would choose to target.
I’m sure President ThinkSkin DrinkBleach won’t have any problem with that at all…
I'm much less concerned about Tiktokers getting deported than I am about all the people that harvest the food we eat 😨
- Yeah I was thinking about this with the news of an ICE raid at a meat packing factory. Let’s see how the cultists feel when their meat prices skyrocket.
I do not understand. Italian citizen get 90 days from arrival. He arrived one month ago, so he's not overstaying?
Or when someone has black skin they apply different rules?
- They likely used the “you’re planning on making videos while you’re here. Since you make videos for work, that means you’re illegally working here without a work visa” excuse. Same reason photographers, musicians, (and freelancers in general) need to be careful about how they talk to customs; If customs discovers that they’re a professional and are going to make music/take photos/etc while in the country, they’ll start rumbling about illegal work without a visa, and even threaten to confiscate work equipment like personal instruments, cameras, etc…
  Even if it would otherwise be totally normal for people to take photos while on vacation, the fact that it’s a professional photographer on vacation suddenly makes it work related. And the same likely happened here. He probably posted a video that he made while in the country, so ICE swooped in while screeching about work visas.
  
  Aaah capitalism. If someone is not extracting wealth from you at every millisecond, they roll out the paddy wagon to start the beatings
Tiktok star ! 😂 that's a thing ?
- ?? TikTok has been a huge thing for almost 6 years at this point, of course there are popular TikTokers (Khaby has even done a cameo in the most recent Bad Boys movie)
  
  He's also big on YouTube.... and quite funny/original.
- ... Yeah?
- I keep forgetting we’re in a dystopian reality
- I think they get a better profit-share than on other platforms, though maybe I'm wrong I know next to nothing about tik tok
- Mid tier troll
  That's your tag now.

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