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.

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    was subjected to “abuse of power and harassment” by officials at Newark Liberty International Airport.

    was subjected to “face eating” by leopards in the leopard cage.

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      I think I know what you are trying to say - if you visit the Fascist States of America right now you shouldn’t be surprised when the fascists go fascist on you - but this is still arguably a misuse of the face-eating leopards idiom, since he was never a leopard supporter.

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      Matches in Canada and Mexico should have full houses. I wish more of the matches took place outside the US for all the players safety.

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      Hopefully the regime won’t have the forethought to pack the stands ahead of time.

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        Did you see the parade? That was after people spotted ads for crowd fillers in the wild

        This administration struggles to organize anything

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    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”

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      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.

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      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.

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        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.