Milo Yiannopoulos Detained By ICE

The right-wing British commentator is in ICE custody and faces deportation.

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Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE

CNN throws right-wing firebrand's pro-ICE tweets back in his face as he faces deportation

Milo Yiannopoulos is in ICE custody facing a final removal order, sources say

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The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that ICE arrested British political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and is holding him pending removal from the United States. DHS said Yiannopoulos entered the country legally through New York City in May 2019, overstayed his visa and received a final removal order from an immigration judge on July 22. Agency records showed him in ICE custody in Louisiana. Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart editor and Kanye West aide, had publicly supported aggressive ICE enforcement.

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Milo Yiannopoulos’s ICE detention was ironic and hypocritical because he had championed harsh immigration enforcement before facing it himself. His public support for ICE roundups, mass deportations, and anti-immigration politics made his own visa trouble look like a self-inflicted comeuppance.