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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,292 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 04:12 PM Yesterday

Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) 2025-06-24T14:49:03.495Z


https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/man-refused-entry-us-border-35443537

Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

A 21-year-old tourist has described the horrendous treatment he allegedly received after being denied entry to the USA due to a meme depicting JD Vance as bald being found on his phone

12:47, 24 Jun 2025
Updated 12:50, 24 Jun 2025

A 21-year-old Norwegian tourist claims he was denied entry to the United States and harassed by ICE agents after they discovered a JD Vance meme on his phone.

Mads Mikkelsen arrived at New Jersey's Newark Airport on June 11 when he was pulled aside by border control and placed in a cell, he told Norwegian outlet Nordlys. Mads was travelling to the States to visit friends, first in New York and then in Austin, Texas, but suffered "harassment and abuse of power" at the hands of US immigration authorities.

"I felt prejudiced, suspected and simply humiliated even then, in front of many other people at the airport," The Tromsø native recounted.


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After handing over his password, Mads was told he would not be allowed to go through with his planned vacation after two images were not to the officers' liking.

One image was of a meme showcasing JD Vance with a bald, egg-shaped head. Variations of the image were shared endlessly in March on social media, with the Vice President himself posting his own version.
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Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Yesterday OP
Wow, those Authoritarians take serious issue over a meme MagickMuffin Yesterday #1

MagickMuffin

(17,729 posts)
1. Wow, those Authoritarians take serious issue over a meme
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 05:13 PM
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So sorry Mads, our country is now full blown of a shit hole country. Our current president continues to refer to our country as such. Only thing is he did it and did in a spectacular manner in just 5 months.

And the magapublicans helped by abjectly not doing their jobs, but hey they get to manipulate the fools who vote for them.


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