Republican Sen. Mike Lee recently called for the deportation of Prince Harry in a post late Wednesday on X. “Prince Harry’s a direct descendant of King George III,” Lee wrote on his “BasedMikeLee” account. “Of course he hates the will of American voters.”
“Let’s deport him!” the senator wrote.
It has been noted that Lee reposted a false claim — debunked by X’s own AI tool, Grok — that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex criticized Trump’s mass deportation efforts and “are ready to leave the U.S.”
Harry spoke to the New York Times in December and said that he has no plans to leave. The Department of Homeland Security last week released heavily-redacted documents and discussed Harry’s visa in connection with a lawsuit filed by the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025.
In his 2023 memoir “Spare,” the prince wrote he experimented with drugs. The Heritage Foundation wanted to review Harry’s answers to questions about drug use on his visa application when he and his wife Meghan moved to California in 2020. The group went on to argue that Harry either disclosed prior drug use and was granted a visa, or he concealed the drug use and was allowed to stay despite conflicting accounts in his book.
The documents released last week didn’t feature Harry’s answer. Officers with DHS and Customs and Border Protection say the unredacted records show Harry’s visa was granted in compliance with normal rules.
