{"id":222539,"date":"2026-08-30T13:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/far-right-media-provocateur-milo-yiannopoulos-deported-by-ice-from-us-to-uk-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T13:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T13:46:53","slug":"far-right-media-provocateur-milo-yiannopoulos-deported-by-ice-from-us-to-uk-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/far-right-media-provocateur-milo-yiannopoulos-deported-by-ice-from-us-to-uk-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Breitbart editor has vocally supported immediate deportations for anyone who can\u2019t prove US residency<br \/>Far-right British media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the US after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/28\/milo-yiannopoulos-detained-ice\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">detained<\/a> on Thursday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New Orleans in connection with what the agency said was expired authorization to be in the country and a deportation order.<br \/>Yiannopoulos\u2019s deportation to the UK occurred on Friday, said a statement on Saturday from a spokesperson for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE.<br \/>A DHS spokesperson on Friday said that Yiannopoulos, 41, had been arrested by ICE on Thursday at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans international airport. The spokesperson said Yiannopoulos \u201clegally entered the country\u201d in May 2019 through New York City but then \u201cchose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation\u2019s laws\u201d.<br \/>The spokesperson said that Yiannopoulos was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge on 22 July \u201cafter failing to show up for his immigration hearing\u201d.<br \/>The spokesperson added: \u201cThis administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport.\u201d<br \/>Yiannopoulos \u2013 who has previously been a vocal supporter of ICE and immediate deportations for anyone who can\u2019t prove US residency \u2013 was believed to have been arrested while heading to a concert by rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West.<br \/>West performed at New Orleans\u2019s Caesars Superdome on Friday. In 2022, Yiannopoulos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/milo-yiannopoulos-leaves-kanye-west-2024-presidential-campaign-1235181129\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">worked on<\/a> West\u2019s short-lived 2024 White House campaign, and his social media account suggests he was working for a company of the rapper.<br \/>Yiannopoulos, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/feb\/21\/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-breitbart-pedophilia-comments\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">former editor of the conservative media outlet Breitbart News<\/a>, previously served <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/06\/07\/milo-yiannopoulos-intern-marjorie-taylor-greene\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">as an intern<\/a> for the former US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. He eventually became locked into a feud with fellow far-right commentator Laura Loomer, a Trump administration ally who claimed on Friday that she had reported Yiannopoulos to ICE over his immigration status.<br \/>At the peak of his influence, Yiannopoulos was offered a speaking slot at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in 2017 after he had been supportive of Donald Trump during his run for his first presidency.<br \/>He fell out of favor in conservative circles after the publication of a video in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/cpac-milo-yiannopoulos.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">which he condoned sexual relations<\/a> with boys as young as 13.<br \/>Yiannopoulos claimed that his experiences as a victim of teenage sexual abuse gave him license to comment on the subject. He soon resigned as a senior editor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/breitbart\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Breitbart<\/a>.<br \/>Yiannopoulos was also banned from Twitter, now called X, in 2016 for directing racist and misogynistic tweets against a Black actor in a Ghostbusters remake. His account <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/24\/elon-musk-offers-general-amnesty-to-suspended-twitter-accounts\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">was reinstated to the platform in 2022<\/a> after it was acquired and renamed by multibillionaire Elon Musk.<br \/>A little more than a year before his detention by ICE, a social media <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Nero\/status\/1931672838748143729\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">post<\/a> from Yiannopoulos called on immigration checkpoints to be set up at California \u201csupermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersection and government buildings, with on the spot deportation for anyone who can\u2019t prove they are in the US legally\u201d.<br \/>He had also sarcastically <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Nero\/status\/1944610863425704114\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">asked<\/a> whether it was impolite for one \u201cto masturbate\u201d in public rather than in private \u201cif you are going about your business and find yourself observing an ICE raid\u201d amid the mass deportation campaign that Trump has pursued throughout his second presidency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxNOC1GMWJCcWJiRm9waVZCdjVXNC11VEJ5OXdqcFFZUGlPVEdLWEliS0d3d1JiUW5EbG1kUU9iM2pLU1JSNm1aZWlBUmRXZFlCY1JidHF3TE9rQUZ2NE5hX3NhejlRVUdJU2lXTTBabEgxeWtwcHV2R3hqZ0gzYkNLa1VrNFE0b1EyR1VF?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Breitbart editor has vocally supported immediate deportations for anyone who can\u2019t prove US residencyFar-right British media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the US after being detained on Thursday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New Orleans in connection with what the agency said was expired authorization to be in the country and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}