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A 21-year-old Norwegian tourist, Mads Mikkelsen, claims he was denied entry to the United States, strip-searched, detained for over five hours, and ultimately deported - all because immigration officials found a JD Vance meme on his phone.
Mikkelsen was traveling to visit friends in New York and Texas when he was pulled aside by border control on June 11. After being placed in a cell with armed guards, he was subjected to intensive questioning about drug smuggling, terrorism, and right-wing extremism - despite having no criminal record or suspicious background.
ICE agents reportedly threatened the exhausted tourist with a $5,000 fine or five years in prison if he refused to provide his phone password. Upon searching his device, they discovered two images they deemed problematic: a popular meme showing Vice President JD Vance with a bald, egg-shaped head (which had gone viral on social media and was even shared by Vance himself), and a photo of Mikkelsen with a wooden pipe he had crafted years earlier.
Despite his attempts to explain these were harmless images, Mikkelsen was strip-searched, forced to provide blood samples, fingerprints, and facial scans. He was then held in a cell for five additional hours without food or water before being placed on a flight back to Oslo.
This incident follows a pattern of increasingly aggressive border enforcement, with other tourists reportedly facing similar treatment over social media content critical of the current administration.
📸 Meme depicting JD Vance as bald
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