MAGA eats one of its own as ICE detains right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos

The Trump administration’s immigration dragnet has caught one of MAGA’s provocateurs.

Milo Yiannopoulos, the "ex-gay" British far-right personality who entered the orbits of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ye (formerly Kanye West) after building a career on outrage, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Louisiana airport Friday, TMZ first reported.

Agents apprehended Yiannopoulos, 41, where rapper Ye was performing Friday at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome. ICE’s detainee database lists Yiannopoulos in custody, but it does not list where he is being held.

The reason for his detention — and his immigration status — remained unclear. The Department of Homeland Security and Yiannopoulos’s representative did not respond to requests for comment from the New York Post.

Far-right activist and Trump ally Laura Loomer quickly claimed credit on X.

“I was the first person to report on the fact that Milo was in the US illegally where he incited violence against President Trump and worked for Marjorie Traitor Greene,” Loomer wrote. “Recently, Candace Owens invited this illegal alien into her home. When Milo called for me to be assassinated, I reported him to ICE and the FBI. I told you all that Milo was an illegal alien.”

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Loomer said Yiannopoulos would be deported to the United Kingdom “where he can live among the Muslims he has recently chosen to embrace,” adding, “Today is a great day for America.”

ICE has not publicly announced plans to deport him.

Born in England, Yiannopoulos became notorious as a Breitbart News editor and avatar of the alt-right. He attacked transgender people, feminists, Muslims and racial justice activists while presenting himself as proof that an openly gay man could thrive on the reactionary right.

That career cratered in 2017 after recordings surfaced in which he defended sexual relationships between adult men and teenage boys. As The Advocate reported, the fallout cost him a Conservative Political Action Conference appearance, a Simon & Schuster book deal and eventually his Breitbart position. Yiannopoulos denied supporting pedophilia and said his remarks were misunderstood.

In 2021, The Advocate reported that he declared himself “ex-gay,” compared homosexuality to addiction and promoted conversion therapy, a discredited and harmful practice.

He later interned for Greene and became political operations director for Ye’s abortive 2024 presidential campaign. Yiannopoulos arranged Ye’s Mar-a-Lago dinner with President Donald Trump and white nationalist Nick Fuentes.