Conservative influencer Bo Loudon said he helped U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detain the world’s most followed TikTok creator to “preserve the American dream.”
Khaby Lame, a Senegalese-Italian influencer with more than 160 million followers on TikTok, left the United States this week after immigration officials detained him at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid International Airport, and Loudon is taking credit for assisting ICE.
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“I had some guys from Dubai and a lot of his business partners and associates that reached out to me and told me a lot of things about him that raised a lot of red flags,” Loudon, a friend of Barron Trump, said during an appearance on Fox News’s Fox News @ Night with Trace Gallagher.
Barron Trump's friend Bo Loudon says he called ICE on famous TikToker Khaby Lame to 'preserve the American dream'
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“I did my own independent research, which I’ve done with many other things, and I was able to uncover a lot about him … evading taxes, coming to the country 50 times on a three-year expired visa.”
Loudon said that Lame, born Seringe Khabane Lame, was given multiple opportunities to make the necessary changes and follow the law of the U.S., but he never did.
“He was given until June 1 to self-deport, and he wouldn’t do it,” he said.
Loudon said he has been attacked as a “rat” by the “tolerant left” and “fake news media” for his actions, but the ridicule does not appear to affect him.
“I’m trying to protect and preserve the American dream, and that’s all I did with this,” he continued.
According to Loudon, Khaby Lame is more than welcome back to the U.S. when he gets the right paperwork.
“I wish him and anyone else the best of luck,” he said. “Coming to this country the legal way is a beautiful thing, and you know what, I’ve had a lot of people, you know, I’ve had a lot of hate for this of course, but I’ve had a lot of people reach out to me and say thank you so much because my family worked five years to get into this country, and we had to go through the brutal processes, and we’re so happy to be here.”
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Loudon added that celebrities cannot be allowed to abuse the nation’s immigration system, and Khaby Lame might not be the last influencer that he will help deport.
“If there’s celebrities that are, you know, not in this country legally, I will investigate it, and I will happily go after them as well,” Loudon said.