British right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to entries in the agency’s records.

The 41-year-old former Breitbart News editor and former employee of rapper Kanye West is listed in an ICE inmate registry search as being held in Louisiana, the records indicate.

ICE and Yiannopoulos have not responded to requests for comment from the BBC, and the circumstances of the detention were unclear. His name and British nationality appear in a search of detainees across the United States.

Where Yiannopoulos Is Listed

Yiannopoulos, who has been living in the United States, appears under the agency’s records with British origins.

The reference to his detention comes from an online search of the ICE inmate registry, which shows his location in Louisiana. No additional details about the reasons for detention were given in the records, and neither ICE nor Yiannopoulos has provided an explanation.

Trump Campaign Booster, Later Break From Movement

Yiannopoulos grew up in Kent in southern England before moving to the US. He was an early supporter of Donald Trump during the 2016 election campaign and took part in an event called Gays for Trump during the Republican National Convention that year.

After moving away from parts of Trump’s political movement, Yiannopoulos continued to support the Republican president’s agenda. Last year, he posted on X calling for “Total legal immunity for ICE agents when they’re on duty”.

In March this year, he wrote on X that Trump “has lost his way, bought off by foreign interests”.

Criticism Over Comments And Self-Described Identity

Yiannopoulos has repeatedly attracted controversy for his remarks about transgender people, Muslims, Black Lives Matter, feminists and gay people, despite identifying as gay. He now describes himself as an “ex-gay”.

His writing has included provocative column titles such as “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy” and “Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer?”

He has also presented himself as a provocateur, calling himself the “most fabulous supervillain on the internet”. Critics have described him as promoting hate speech.

CPAC Uninvited After Footage, Then Resignation

In 2017, Yiannopoulos was uninvited from speaking at CPAC, a US conservative conference that also hosted Trump, after footage emerged in which he appeared to condone paedophilia.

Yiannopoulos later apologised and resigned from Breitbart. He denied the allegations, saying he had been speaking about his own experiences as a child.

He has also been regularly linked with the alt-right, a loose movement known for opposing political correctness and feminism and associated by critics and analysts with neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Yiannopoulos has said he does not see himself as part of the alt-right, although he has described it as “energising and exciting”.

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Overstayer and issued final order for removal on July 22. He failed to appear for his immigration hearing. By choice.

Good bye.

White men get deported too.

No exceptions. Just how it should be.

Justice sometimes arrives unexpectedly.

You can't leave the cult. There will be a price to pay.

A sad day indeed ..... for the UK.

6 minutes ago, LALes said:

You can't leave the cult. There will be a price to pay.

And the price is everyone not in the cult can live in Gaza which is the only country they want to fight for

4 hours ago, HolmesEquivelant said:

Overstayer and issued final order for removal on July 22. He failed to appear for his immigration hearing. By choice.

Good bye.

White men get deported too.

I wish they had kept him

54 minutes ago, terryq said:

A sad day indeed ..... for the UK.

Lol. He’s coming back.

That's hilarious. I didn't even know that he's not even a U.S. citizen. Serves him well.

It would be funny to see if Yiannopoulos ended up in the same cell as Tommy Robinson.😁

7 hours ago, JonnyF said:

No exceptions. Just how it should be.

Oh the irony!

Susan”stop the boats”lea is fully on board with the prospect of a far right Nazi supporter being dumped on UK.

Yeah Sue I know that your defence of your orange hero was at the forefront of your post but you didn’t think it through didya?

All hell breaks loose as DHS arrests far-right poster boy who helped 'put Trump in office'

A war among conservatives erupted into open accusations on Friday after an ICE arrest at a Louisiana airport of a far-right former MAGA ally who credited himself with getting President Donald Trump elected.

TMZ broke the arrest at 1:06 p.m. Eastern. Nine minutes later, far-right activist Laura Loomer claimed it as her own work, saying she had reported Yiannopoulos to ICE and the FBI.

"Milo is getting deported, but more importantly, Milo is getting LOOMERED," she wrote on X hours before the DHS broke the news.

Homeland Security confirmed the arrest nearly three hours later and, when it did, quoted TMZ's story. Loomer answered the government's own announcement within three minutes.

"We asked for more deportations, and ICE is delivering," Loomer wrote, referring to her influence with federal agencies.

The White House fired at least four National Security Council staffers in 2025, along with National Security Agency Director Gen. Timothy Haugh, after Loomer handed President Donald Trump a list of officials she called disloyal, CNN reported.

She spent Friday afternoon aiming that leverage at three conservatives, asking Attorney General Todd Blanche to investigate them for sheltering Yiannopoulos. Before long, she was calling for more heads to roll.

"Tucker, MTG, and Candace all need to be investigated for allegedly harboring a known illegal alien," Loomer wrote.

Soon after that, the Daily Caller, a publication founded by Carlson, posed the question: "Did Laura Loomer Get Milo Yiannopoulos Deported?"

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, both estranged from Trump, announced a new political movement on Aug. 1, accompanied by a photograph from a dinner at Carlson's Maine studio. "But he's betrayed us all," Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote. "The movement has begun."

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent sat at that table, HuffPost reported. Loomer replied 36 minutes after the photograph went up.

"Every person in this photo is a traitor to America and an anti-Trump operative amplified by foreign adversaries," she wrote, saying all of them belonged on a government watch list.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's daughter, Lauren Greene Sanders, responded directly to Friday's demand, tagging Blanche and the FBI in her reply.

"Milo NEVER lived there, I am a witness," Lauren Greene Sanders responded, saying she had lived at her mother's house in Rome, Georgia.

Yiannopoulos turned on Trump years before any of them did, telling supporters in 2020 that backing the president had destroyed his career, LGBTQ Nation reported.

"I lost everything helping to put Trump in office," he said.

Until his arrest, he had been demanding that federal agents be allowed to deport anyone who could not prove legal status on the spot, according to The Telegraph

All hell breaks loose as DHS arrests far-right poster boy who helped 'put Trump in office'

Good news.

So apparently he has joined with Rupert Lowe

https://www.suffolkconservatives.org.uk/news/reform-uk-leaders-controversial-social-media-past-overshadows-first-suffolk-county-council

Some Reform Councillor, thinking of the topics that matter to Suffolk voters

Councillors called on Reform UK’s new leader of Suffolk County Council, Councillor Hadwen, to distance himself from his previous conduct on social media, which included:

• Stating that Russia was not his enemy, around one month after the Salisbury poisonings

• Stating Enoch Powell ‘was right’

•  Stating he would like controversial political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos to be his Public Relations Manager

15 hours ago, Red Forever said:

Oh the irony!

Susan”stop the boats”lea is fully on board with the prospect of a far right Nazi supporter being dumped on UK.

Yeah Sue I know that your defence of your orange hero was at the forefront of your post but you didn’t think it through didya?

What you on about Fem?

Just asking for the law to be applied equally to all. A foreign concept to a commie 2 tier Labour supporter.