British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was deported again to his dwelling nation, the UK, a Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) spokesperson stated on Saturday.
The deportation on Friday got here a day after Yiannopoulos, 41, was arrested on the Louis Armstrong New Orleans Worldwide Airport by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A DHS spokesperson stated he “selected to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s legal guidelines” after legally getting into the nation in Could 2019.
Yiannopoulos, who has referred to as for stricter immigration enforcement than the Trump administration has carried out, together with ICE checkpoints at grocery store entrances, didn’t seem for an immigration listening to and was issued a closing order of removing on July 22, in line with DHS.
Yiannopoulos couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
The movie star information website TMZ.com, which broke the information of his arrest, advised that Yiannopoulos, who has shut ties to the rapper Ye, previously often known as Kanye West, was in New Orleans forward of the musician’s scheduled efficiency there on Friday night time.
Yiannopoulos was a vocal supporter of Donald Trump throughout his 2016 marketing campaign and infrequently espoused anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant rhetoric. In a June 2025 put up on the social media platform X, he wrote: “We have now received to deport hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of individuals. With out that, nothing else issues.”
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