Far-right UK provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE in US

An ICE authoritative tells Al Jazeera the British governmental commentator overstayed his sojourn successful the US and volition beryllium removed.

Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right British commentator known for antecedently being a vocal protagonist of United States President Donald Trump, has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

A spokesperson for the US Department of Homeland Security told Al Jazeera that Yiannopoulos was taken into custody astatine the Louis Armstrong International Airport successful New Orleans, Louisiana, connected Thursday.

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He allegedly overstayed his ineligible authorisation to stay successful the US aft entering the state done New York City connected May 14, 2019.

“Yiannopoulos was issued a last bid of removal by an Immigration Judge connected July 22, aft failing to amusement up for his migration hearing,” the spokesperson wrote connected Friday. “He volition stay successful ICE custody pending removal.”

The Department of Homeland Security besides posted a photograph to societal media that appeared to beryllium a mugshot of the 41-year-old blimpish firebrand who, successful June 2025, called connected the Trump medication to “deport millions and millions and millions of people”.

In the post, the section warned that those detained for overstaying their sojourn would beryllium “arrested and deported without a accidental to return”.

The Department of Homeland Security posted a photograph connected Friday identified arsenic Milo Yiannopoulos [Department of Homeland Security]

Online records bash not specify which ICE detention installation is presently holding Yiannopoulos. Instead, it refers “family members and ineligible representatives” to interaction the ICE tract bureau successful Alexandria, Louisiana, for further details.

Reports bespeak Yiannopoulos was successful New Orleans for a performance by the instrumentalist Ye, formerly known arsenic Kanye West. TMZ was the archetypal to study Yiannopoulos’s detainment.

Laura Loomer, a apical Trump state known for spreading conspiracy theories, appeared to instrumentality recognition for Yiannopoulos’s detainment, calling it a “great time for America”.

She besides denounced Yiannopoulos’s enactment with erstwhile US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Trump supporter-turned-critic.

“I was the archetypal idiosyncratic to study connected the information that Milo was successful the US illegally wherever helium incited unit against President Trump and worked for Marjorie Traitor Greene,” Loomer wrote connected the societal media level X. “When Milo called for maine to beryllium assassinated, I reported him to ICE and FBI.”

Loomer has publically sparred with Yiannopoulos for years. He antecedently exposed what helium purported to beryllium Loomer’s intelligence wellness struggles successful a September 2024 post, claiming she had been involuntarily committed to psychiatric facilities.

Yiannopoulos, known for his online trolling and anti-Islamic postings, was permanently banned by X’s predecessor, Twitter, successful July 2016. His relationship was reinstated erstwhile Elon Musk took implicit the company.

After that, Yiannopoulos returned to the level with a bid of inflammatory posts, including 1 that called the “Muslim satellite functionally retarded”.

More recently, the 41-year-old founded a Los Angeles-based endowment absorption called Tarantula that offers, successful its ain words, “unrivalled connections, superior and expertise” to a big of celebrities and nationalist figures.

The tract lists a fig of arguable “past and present” clients similar Trump, Ye, convicted fraudster “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli and rapper Azealia Banks.