JUST IN: Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE at Louisiana airport: report

Political personality and commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by ICE in Louisiana, according to a report from TMZ. He is currently being held in an ICE detention facility after being taken into custody at the airport.

Yiannopoulos has ties to Kanye West, and the musician was set to perform in New Orleans on Friday evening. The reason for him being detained by ICE was not immediately clear. He is facing deportation, according to the Telegraph.

Yiannopoulos, from Britain, has remained a controversial figure in politics for year now. He worked for Breitbart from 2014 to 2017 but resigned after clips of the commentator went viral where he stated that sexual relationships between a 13-year-old and an older man could be consensual. He later resigned from the outlet after backlash.

In 2022, he worked as an intern for Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and also helped to orchestrate a dinner with West, Nick Fuentes, and President Donald Trump. In a post to social media after the meal, Trump said that West "unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about. We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport.” At the time, Fuentes was reportedly not on the guest list.

Yiannopoulos later worked with West when the musician launched his short-lived presidential run in 2024. Although Yiannopoulos stopped working for West for a period of time when the musician launched an adult entertainment studio under his Yeezy brand, as of 2026 he is West's spokesperson and legal liaison.

Although Yiannopoulos was married to a man, in 2021, he declared himself to be an "ex-gay" and that he "demoted" his husband to "housemate." He is currently going through a heated divorce battle with his estranged husband John Campbell. At the time, he said he was devoting his life to Catholicism.