Khaby Lame, TikTok’s hottest star, leaves U.S. after being detained by immigration brokers in Las Vegas

Khaby Lame, the world’s hottest TikTok persona with hundreds of thousands of followers, has left the U.S. after being detained by immigration brokers in Las Vegas for allegedly overstaying his visa.

The Senegalese-Italian influencer, whose authorized title is Seringe Khabane Lame, was detained Friday at Harry Reid Worldwide Airport however was allowed to depart the nation and not using a deportation order, a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed in a press release.

Lame arrived within the U.S. on April 30 and “overstayed the phrases of his visa,” the ICE spokesperson stated. The Related Press despatched a message in search of remark Tuesday to the e-mail handle listed on Lame’s Instagram account. He has not publicly commented on his detainment.

His detainment and voluntary departure from the U.S. comes amid President Donald Trump’s escalating crackdown on immigration, together with raids in Los Angeles that sparked days of protests towards ICE, because the president checks the bounds of his govt authority.

A voluntary departure — which was granted to Lame — permits these going through elimination from the U.S. to keep away from a deportation order on their immigration document, which might forestall them from being allowed again into the U.S. for as much as a decade.

The 25-year-old rose to worldwide fame through the pandemic with out ever saying a phrase in his movies, which might present him reacting to absurdly difficult “life hacks.” He has 162.3 million followers on TikTok alone.

The Senegal-born influencer moved to Italy when he was an toddler along with his working class mother and father and formally turned an Italian citizen in 2022.

His web fame rapidly developed. Lame started his TikTok profession after dropping his job in a manufacturing facility.

“It is my face and my expressions which make folks giggle,” Lame advised The New York Instances in 2021, saying his reactions converse “a world language.”  

He signed a multi-year partnership with designer model Hugo Boss in 2022. In January, he was appointed as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador.

Final month, he attended the Met Gala in New York Metropolis, days after arriving within the U.S.