MAGA Gen-Z influencer Bo Loudon proudly claimed responsibility for the detention of TikTok’s most-followed creator, Khaby Lame, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He is now threatening to target other immigrants, according to a report by Huff Post.
“We don’t want celebrities using their status to abuse our system and take advantage of the things that we don’t have access to,”
Loudon, 18, said on Fox News.
“I can’t say I’m done with Khaby; if there’s other celebrities that are not in this country legally, I will investigate it and I will happily go after them as well.”
Lame, whose full name is Serigne Khabane Lame, is a 25-year-old Italian citizen originally from Senegal. He was detained on June 6 at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas for immigration violations, an ICE spokesperson told HuffPost. ICE stated that Lame had exceeded the limits of his visa and chose to leave the U.S. voluntarily. The agency did not confirm any involvement from Loudon in Lame’s detention.
However, in an interview with Dylan Page, who goes by
“News Daddy”
on TikTok, during Wednesday’s episode of Page’s podcast, the MAGA influencer admitted to having “reported” Lame as an
“illegal alien.”
He mentioned that he learned about Lame’s visa overstay and
“called some buddies in the administration”
to quickly have the TikToker detained.
“I want to look out for the little guys, the people that follow our laws, respect our country, appreciate it and its values and don’t abuse the system,”
Loudon said as his reason for doing so.
Lame gained fame in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lame lived in Italy since he was 1, and became an Italian citizen in 2022. He attended the Met Gala in New York City, this year. However, Lame has expressed that he faced challenges in securing Italian citizenship due to the country’s regulations, and that his Senegalese passport complicated his efforts to obtain a U.S. visa.
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