A Norwegian tourist has accused American authorities of denying him entry into the U.S. because he had a popular meme of JD Vance saved on his phone.

Mads Mikkelsen, 21, told his hometown newspaper Nordlys that he was subjected to “abuse of power and harassment” by officials at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Mikkelsen claims that immigration officials stopped him for questioning and quizzed him “about drug trafficking, terrorist plots, and right-wing extremism,” all of which he said was “totally without reason.” He says he was placed in a holding cell.

  • mienshao@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 day ago

    Tourist “claims”??? American journalists still refusing to give the people the benefit of the doubt, but whenever trump and his regime lies through their fucking teeth, they NEVER use verbiage like “claims”

    • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      4 hours ago

      He also answered when asked about recreational drug use that he has tried weed a couple of times in places where it’s legal and had a picture of a homemade pipe on his phone. Which Also shouldn’t be a problem, but it wasn’t necessarily the Vance pic that got him turned away.

    • Peer@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      21 hours ago

      What would have been a better headline? There is no way to verity the story. The actual reason might be different. Also there are plenty “Trump claims” headlines.

      • ItDoBeHowItDoBe@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        7 hours ago

        The officials have come out and said that they refused him entry for admitted drug use. This same thing would keep you out of a lot of countries.