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Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme (www.dailystar.co.uk)
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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

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[โ€“] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I refused to travel to the US in the last Trump administration. I'm certainly not going to do it in this one.

[โ€“] Cricket@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

As someone else pointed out in another comment on this thread, US border guards have been searching through phones over multiple administrations now. I'm guessing probably since the advent of smartphones.