ICE Deports Milo Yiannopoulos After 3 Far-Right Influencers Claim Role
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Updated · The Guardian · Sep 2
ICE Deports Milo Yiannopoulos After 3 Far-Right Influencers Claim Role
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Sep 2
Summary
Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE in Louisiana and deported from the US this week, ending the British-born provocateur’s long slide from early Trump-era prominence.
Laura Loomer said she reported Yiannopoulos to ICE and the FBI, while Raheem Kassam and Benny Johnson also claimed advance knowledge of DHS plans to remove him.
Those boasts, if accurate, suggest either leaks from confidential immigration proceedings or the use of federal enforcement to settle feuds inside the MAGA influencer world.
Yiannopoulos had already been pushed to the fringe after resigning from Breitbart in 2017 and losing a book deal over resurfaced comments about child sexual abuse.
The deportation is portrayed as part of a wider rupture in Trump’s coalition, with far-right factions turning on one another as the Iran war drags on before November’s midterms.