{"id":274644,"date":"2026-08-29T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274644\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:18:09","slug":"far-right-british-provocateur-milo-yiannopoulos-arrested-by-us-immigration-enforcement-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274644\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by US immigration enforcement | Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. immigration officials arrested controversial British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos<\/a> on Thursday in New Orleans, according to the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

Immigration officials announced on Friday that Yiannopoulos was arrested at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and accused him of overstaying after entering the United States legally in May 2019 through New York City. An immigration judge issued a final order of removal on July 22 after Yiannopoulos failed to show up for his immigration hearing, a DHS spokesperson wrote in an email.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation\u2019s laws,\u201d a spokesperson for DHS wrote in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n

ICE\u2019s online detainee locator did not say where Yiannopoulos was being held, but directed family and legal representatives to the agency\u2019s office in Alexandria, Louisiana, a deportation hub for international flights.<\/p>\n

Representatives of Yiannopoulos did not respond to a request for comment. It was unclear whether he has legal representation.<\/p>\n

The British national has most recently worked for the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who was scheduled to perform in New Orleans on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

Yiannopoulos is a well-known champion of conservative causes and has frequently taken<\/a> provocative public positions criticizing feminism, Islam and immigrants. He has been especially supportive of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cZero immigration for the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts,\u201d Yiannopoulos wrote on the social platform X last year.<\/p>\n

Yiannopoulos rose to fame in the early 2010s as an incendiary writer for the conservative website Breitbart News. He resigned from the company in 2017 after a video of him endorsing pedophilia resurfaced online. He later apologized for the remarks and said he himself was a victim of sexual assault as a minor.<\/p>\n

Yiannopoulos’ arrest Thursday comes amid a nationwide uptick in detentions as part of Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n

Far-right conservative activist Laura Loomer swiftly took to social media to applaud Yiannopoulos\u2019 arrest after years of public feuding between the two personalities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was the first person to report on the fact that Milo was in the US illegally where he incited violence against President Trump and worked for Marjorie Traitor Greene,\u201d Loomer wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Controversy around Yiannopoulos ballooned in 2017 when he carried out what he called his \u201cTroll Academy Tour\u201d across college campuses nationwide. Fights broke out when some students protested Yiannopoulos’ appearances and accused him of hate speech, while others celebrated him as a champion of free speech. Around that time, Buzzfeed reported on Yiannopoulos’ cozy relationships with self-proclaimed white nationalists.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Yiannopoulos continued to work in the orbit of conservative activism. In 2022, he was an intern for former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>, according to the Washington Post. He subsequently ran the short-lived 2024 presidential campaign for Ye. Most recently, Yiannopoulos has worked as a spokesperson for Ye, who has been beset by controversy of his own following antisemitic comments that the rapper has since apologized for.<\/p>\n

This story has been corrected to say Milo Yiannopoulos entered the U.S. legally in 2019, not illegally. It was also updated on Aug. 29, 2026, to correct the date of Yiannopoulos\u2019 arrest in paragraph 10. He was arrested on Thursday, not Friday.<\/p>\n

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