Overview

• ICE agents stopped Lame at a Las Vegas airport on June 6 for overstaying a visa that began with his April 30 entry
• He was released the same day under a voluntary departure order and has since left the United States
• Conservative influencer Bo Loudon took credit online for reporting Lame as an “illegal alien,” triggering the initial detention
• Early searches of ICE’s detainee locator database showed no record of Lame, fueling questions about the veracity of the viral claims
• Lame, an Italian citizen born in Senegal with over 162 million TikTok followers, continued posting on social media throughout the incident