According to the UK's Daily Mail on June 24, a Norwegian tourist named Mads Mikkelsen said he was subjected to "abuse of power and harassment" by U.S. immigration officials when entering the United States. After being found with an image of U.S. Vice President Vance on his phone, he was directly denied entry into the United States.

The Norwegian tourist Mads Mikkelsen Nordlys who was "harassed" by U.S. authorities

Mikkelsen said he arrived at Newark Airport in New Jersey, USA on June 11. But soon after, he was taken to a separate small room by U.S. officials and questioned about drug trafficking, terrorism, and right-wing extremism without any apparent reason.

According to Mikkelsen's recollection, during this process, U.S. officials began threatening him to reveal his phone's unlock password, saying that if he did not cooperate, he would be fined $5,000 or imprisoned for five years.

The report stated that eventually, U.S. officials found an image related to U.S. Vice President Vance on Mikkelsen's phone. This image depicted Vance as a bald-headed man with a head like an egg, and some of Vance's facial features were exaggerated.

The image of Vice President Vance on Mikkelsen's phone The Daily Mail

The U.S. news website The Beast Daily mentioned in its report that when the U.S. officials found this picture, Mikkelsen explained that it had been automatically saved to his phone by a chat software, and this image became very popular online after Ukrainian President Zelenskyy visited the U.S. in February. Mikkelsen told the U.S. officials that it was just a joke, but he was still forcibly searched and forced to provide blood samples and fingerprints.

"It felt like I was sitting there like a terrorist suspect," Mikkelsen said. "I tried several times to pull myself together, but finally, I just wanted to go home."

However, Mikkelsen did not reveal whether he had provoked the immigration officers in some way. But he did say that he had just landed from a flight across the Atlantic and was very tired. That day, Mikkelsen was deported back to Norway.

In fact, this is not the first time that ordinary people have complained about U.S. immigration officials "acting strangely." Previously, an Australian writer named Alistair Kitchen said that due to his public support for Palestine and Gaza, he was detained by U.S. officials for 12 hours when trying to enter the United States from Los Angeles International Airport and was quickly deported back to Australia. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security strongly denied this information.

The Australian writer Alistair Kitchen who was also "harassed" and deported by the U.S. The Daily Mail

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