By Safiyah Riddle
The Associated Press
August 28, 2026 - 1:55 pm
U.S. Immigration officials arrested arguable British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos connected Thursday successful New Orleans, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Immigration officials said that Yiannopoulos was arrested astatine Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport connected Friday and accused him of entering the United States illegally successful May 2019 done New York City. An migration justice issued a last bid of removal connected July 22 aft Yiannopoulos failed to amusement up for his migration hearing, a DHS spokesperson wrote successful an email.
“He chose to overstay his invited successful usurpation of our nation’s laws,” a spokesperson for DHS wrote successful an emailed statement.
ICE’s online detainee locator doesn’t accidental wherever Yiannopoulos is being held but directs household and ineligible representatives to the agency’s bureau successful Alexandria, Louisiana, a deportation hub for planetary flights.
Representatives of Yiannopoulos did not respond to a petition for comment. It is unclear whether helium has ineligible representation.
The British nationalist has astir precocious worked for the rapper Ye, formerly known arsenic Kanye West, who is scheduled to execute successful New Orleans connected Friday evening.
Yiannopoulos is simply a well-known champion of blimpish causes and has often taken provocative nationalist positions criticizing feminism, Islam and immigrants. He has been particularly supportive of President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown.
“Zero migration for the adjacent 20 years. No ifs, nary buts,” Yiannopoulos wrote connected the societal level X past year.
Yiannopoulos roseate to fame successful the aboriginal 2010s arsenic an incendiary writer for the blimpish website Breitbart News. He resigned from the institution successful 2017 aft a video of him endorsing pedophilia resurfaced online. He aboriginal apologized for the remarks and said helium himself was a unfortunate of intersexual battle arsenic a minor.
Yiannopoulos’ apprehension Friday comes amid a nationwide uptick successful detentions arsenic portion of Trump’s migration crackdown.
Far-right blimpish activistic Laura Loomer swiftly took to societal media to applaud Yiannopoulos’ apprehension aft years of nationalist feuding betwixt the 2 personalities.
“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 X.
Controversy astir Yiannopoulos ballooned successful 2017 erstwhile helium carried retired what helium called his “Troll Academy Tour” crossed assemblage campuses nationwide. Fights broke retired erstwhile immoderate students protested Yiannopoulos’ appearances and accused him of hatred speech, portion others celebrated him arsenic a champion of escaped speech. Around that time, Buzzfeed reported connected Yiannopoulos’ cozy relationships with self-proclaimed achromatic nationalists.
In caller years, Yiannopoulos continued to enactment successful the orbit of blimpish activism. In 2022, helium was an intern for erstwhile Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, according to the Washington Post. He subsequently ran the short-lived 2024 statesmanlike run for Ye. Most recently, Yiannopolous has worked arsenic a spokesperson for Ye, who has been beset by contention of his ain pursuing antisemitic comments that the rapper has since apologized for.
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