DHS confirms Milo Yiannopoulos was deported to UK

Far-right political figure Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported to the United Kingdom after his detention in Louisiana earlier this week, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody apprehended the British native on Thursday evening at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) in Kenner, La., after DHS officials said he chose to “overstay his welcome” in the United States.

Yiannopoulos — who previously worked on the 2024 presidential campaign for the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West — was in Louisiana for the artist’s scheduled concert.

Federal officials said he “legally entered” the U.S. on May 14 through New York City and was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge on July 22 after he failed to show up for an immigration hearing.

DHS deported the British national back to his home country on Friday, a DHS spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill’s broadcast partner, NewsNation.

“DHS reversed the horrendous Biden-era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country,” the spokesperson said. “Under President Trump, DHS will no longer tolerate this. This 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.”

Yiannopoulos built a reputation as a conservative firebrand in his writing for the far-right Breitbart News, garnering criticism for his incendiary comments about Muslims, women and other groups of people.

In 2017, he stepped down from his role as senior editor at Breitbart after he made comments that appeared to condone pedophilia. Yiannopoulos apologized at the time, but he accused the media of misrepresenting his comments.

During President Trump’s second term, Yiannopoulos has supported the administration’s widespread immigration enforcement operations and called for “total legal immunity for ICE agents when they’re on duty.”

“There is one concrete thing we must insist on this administration delivering,” he wrote in a social media post last June. “It matters a lot more than debts measured in imaginary money. We have got to deport millions and millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters.”