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TikTok star Khaby Lame returns to social media after self-deporting for violating immigration rules

Khaby Lame, the world's most-followed TikToker, has resurfaced online days after being deported under Trump's immigration crackdown. ICE claims he overstayed his visa.

The images follow days of uproar after Lame, born in Senegal but raised in Chivasso, Italy, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at Las Vegas's Harry Reid International Airport on June 6. The deportation was first revealed by conservative influencer Bo Loudon, who claimed to have reported Lame and posted what he said was a screenshot from ICE's website indicating that the TikToker was being held at Henderson Detention Center in Nevada near Las Vegas. Last month, Twitch streamer Hasan Piker - better known as HasanAbi - claimed he was detained at Chicago's O'Hare Airport and interrogated by ICE agents about his political views on Trump and Hamas.

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