Far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Louisiana and is awaiting deportation after allegedly overstaying his visa and remaining in the U.S. illegally.
The 41-year-old former Breitbart tech editor, who parlayed the notoriety of his central role in the alt-right movement into an internship with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and multiple stretches working for Kanye West, was detained by ICE agents Thursday after landing at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, where West is set to perform at the Caesars Superdome tonight.
Yiannopoulos lives in the United States, primarily in Los Angeles, but was born in and is a citizen of the U.K. He is currently registered in ICE’s detainee database, but there are scant details about his detention and where he is being held.
On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a statement on X announcing Yiannopoulos’s detention.
“On August 27, ICE arrested Milo Yiannopoulos, an illegal alien from the United Kingdom, at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) in Kenner, Louisiana,” the statement reads. “Yiannopoulos legally entered the country on May 14, 2019, through New York City, New York. He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws.”
