A Norwegian tourist has claimed he was harassed and refused to enter the US after the immigration officers found a JD Vance meme on his phone.
Mads Mikkelsen, 21, was touched at New Jersey New Jersey Airport on June 11, excited to visit friends in New York City before traveling to Austin, Texas.
His plans were thrown into complete disorders after he was reported to be asked in “terrorism and drugs” before being thrown into a bearing cell.
“I was the subject of abuse of power and harassment,” Mikkelsen told the Norweigen Nordlys newspaper.
“They took me to a room with some armed guards, where I had to hand over my shoes, cell phone and back,” he added.
Mikkelsen claims that immigration officials stopped him and asked him “for drug trafficking, terrorist plots and right -wing extremism”, which he said was “completely without reason”.
He was then placed in a cell.
Next, Mikkelsen said officials threatened to imprison him or finally $ 3,200 if he did not give them access to his phone, so he did.
It was at the point when agents made a discovery of one on his device describing the face of Vice President JD Vance – changed to make it Chubbier, Balc and Cartoonish.
“The picture was automatically saved in the rotation of my camera from a chat app, but I really didn’t think these innocent pictures would stop my entry into the country,” he said.
Mikkelsen claims he begged with agents that the photos were jokes, but they didn’t want to hear it. Instead, they checked it, forced him to give blood samples and supply fingerprints.
“I felt like I was a terrorist suspect where I was sitting,” he said.
“I tried to withdraw myself several times. But after all, I just wanted to go back home.”
Mikkelsen said he was set on a flight back to Norway that day.
The incident has sparked a wave of criticism on social media, with many who declared the act as a violation of free speech.
“Stop a tourist on a meme that mocks VP? That’s what authority looks like,” one said.
“The ice arrested a Norwegian tourist who had a JD Vance meme on their phone.
“Remember when JD Vance went to Germany to teach them for free speech? That was funny,” another wrote.
“So much for free speech. Note to visitors: best doesn’t come for a few years,” said one US resident.
It comes after a former NSW police officer was arrested, imprisoned overnight and interned by the US at the end of last month.
Nikki Saroukus of South-Western Sydney was “treated as a criminal”, denied her rights, undergoing invading research and a night in federal prison after traveling to Hawaii to visit her US military man.
Saroukos told news.com.Au she arrived with her mother at Daneil K Inouye International Airport for a three-week routine holiday when things took a sharp turn on the customs table.
Saroukus and her mother were sent to a holding area to interrogate while their bags were thrown out and inspected, along with their documents.
There, she was forced to submit her phone and passwords and was questioned about her work as a former police officer.
“They were asking me about ice and Meti and if I knew how much it was being imported from New Zealand.”
After the state concluded that she was told to wait outside, where she was then subjected to a DNA swab – for which she was not given any explanation.
She was further forced to sign a document stating that she was not part of a cartel and had nothing to do with gang members.
Saroukos said she was handcuffed, undergoing an in -depth cavity search and marched through the airport in full view of the public before heading to a federal detention facility where she spent the night.
She then went on a flight to Australia again the next day.
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