Milo Yiannopoulos, a British nationwide recognized for his near-constant reinventions as a vizier inside far-right American politics for greater than a decade, has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Louisiana, in keeping with the division’s information.
Whereas it’s not clear which detention facility Yiannopoulos is presently being held in, the ICE listing instructs any household or authorized representatives to contact the Enforcement and Removing Workplace in Alexandria, Louisiana, a processing middle for the central a part of the state, about 200 miles from New Orleans.
ICE and the Division of Homeland Safety didn’t instantly touch upon the matter or point out plans to deport Yiannopoulos.
TMZ first broke the information of Yiannopoulos’ detention. He has beforehand lived and labored within the US, allegedly on an O-1 visa, which is for people with extraordinary talents within the arts, sciences, and different areas, together with journalism—however he has by no means been a US citizen.
Yiannopoulos acquired his begin in US politics on the right-wing web site Breitbart, the place he labored from 2014 to 2017. He left the job after his remarks about sexual activity between adults and younger adolescent boys, which he mentioned might be “completely consensual,” resulted in a backlash. He has dipped out and in of right-wing circles for years, and in 2022 claimed to have organized an notorious 2022 dinner with Kanye West, white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago “to make Trump’s life depressing.”
Yiannopoulos married his long-term boyfriend in Hawaii in 2017 however in 2021 claimed he had grow to be heterosexual and Roman Catholic, and introduced plans to open a homosexual conversion remedy facility in Florida. He went on to work with Fuentes in addition to former US consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Yiannopoulos additionally serves as spokesman for Kanye West, who’s scheduled to carry out on the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Friday night time as a part of his 2026 tour. The longtime provocateur joined West’s theoretical 2024 presidential marketing campaign in late 2022, however walked away days after the rapper espoused Nazi beliefs and praised Adolf Hitler on conspiracist Alex Jones’ Infowars livestream. The 2 frequently reunited and cut up over the next years, with Yiannopoulis claiming in a sequence of X posts in 2024 that West was hooked on nitrous oxide.
All through his evolution as a MAGA determine, Yiannopoulos has hardly ever shied away from extremely public battles with enemies and rivals. Among the many most outspoken is the Islamophobic conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who on Friday pinned a publish on X saying his detention by ICE—and appeared to take partial credit score for it.
“I used to be the primary individual to report on the truth that Milo was within the US illegally the place he incited violence in opposition to President Trump and labored for Marjorie Traitor Greene,” Loomer wrote. “Milo goes to be deported again to the UK the place he can stay among the many Muslims he has just lately chosen to embrace. At present is a superb day for America.”
Final summer time, Yiannopoulos endorsed a hardline anti-immigration stance on his personal X account. “There’s one concrete factor we should insist on this administration delivering,” he wrote. “Now we have acquired to deport thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of individuals. With out that, nothing else issues.”
