Kanye West’s one-time political chief Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by ICE, records show.
Sources tell TMZ that the far-right Yiannopoulos, 41, was apprehended by ICE at an airport in Louisiana, where West is set to perform Friday night in New Orleans at the Caesars Superdome.
ICE lists the England-born provocateur as being in custody, but does not say where he is being held.
Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart News editor who has worked with the far-right commentator Nick Fuentes, has been among the most polarizing figures on social media for more than a decade. He worked as an unpaid intern for former MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in June 2022, then was a top adviser during West’s short-lived 2024 presidential campaign.
Yiannopoulos was credited with arranging West’s hugely controversial Mar-a-Lago dinner with Donald Trump and white nationalist Fuentes in 2022.
Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman, called him out for meeting with the trio, all of whom have been accused of being antisemitic.
“You’re better than this,” Friedman told Trump in a tweet. “I urge you to throw those bums out, disavow them and relegate them to the dustbin of history where they belong.”
Yiannopoulos has posted in support of ICE multiple times during Trump’s second-term migrant crackdown. He posted to X in September, “Justice system should be just ICE.”
Months earlier, in June 2025, he called for ICE to initiate on-the-spot deportations for anyone who could not prove their legal status during a stop by federal agents. He attached a photo to the post that read, “papers please.”
“California needs ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections and government buildings, with on-the-spot deportation for anyone who can’t prove they are in the US legally,” he wrote.
Yiannopoulos was openly gay for years and married a man in Hawaii in 2017. However, he said in 2021 that he was attempting to “pray the gay away” or live as “ex-gay,” declaring that he was now straight.
Yiannopoulos told the anti-LGBTQ outlet LIFE Site that year, “The guy I live with has been demoted to housemate, which hasn’t been easy for either of us. It helps that I can still just about afford to keep him in Givenchy and a new Porsche every year.”
The Trump-whisperer Laura Loomer took a victory lap over Yiannopoulos’ detainment on Friday.
“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,” she 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.”
She added, “Milo is going to be deported back to the UK, where he can live among the Muslims he has recently chosen to embrace. Today is a great day for America.”
