At the end of July, Los Angeles-based influencer Ricardo landed back in the US after a summer spent following Lana Del Rey around Europe. His once-in-a-lifetime trip had taken in shows in Cardiff, Glasgow and Liverpool, and ended with Del Rey’s sold-out gig at Wembley Stadium. Posing for pictures in front of a special mural on Wembley Way – the sun, for once, blazing down on London – Ricardo looked like a fan who had had the time of his life.

But, upon landing back at LAX, he turned on his phone to find that fellow fans on TikTok had escalated their long-running hate campaign against him. They had moved beyond death threats and online trolling – and were threatening to report him to ICE. Yes, that ICE: President Trump’s much-feared Immigration and Customs Enforcement department. Ricardo

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