British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported to the United Kingdom after his arrest by American immigration authorities. <\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security said Saturday that Yiannopoulos was returned to his home country Friday after being accused of overstaying after entering the U.S. legally in May 2019. An immigration judge issued a final order of removal July 22 after he failed to show up for an immigration hearing, a Homeland Security spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Yiannopoulos was arrested Thursday at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation\u2019s laws,\u201d a Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Yiannopoulos and his representatives did not respond to requests for comment, and he has not posted on the social platform X since Thursday.<\/p>\n
Yiannopoulos is a well-known champion of conservative causes and has frequently taken provocative public positions criticizing feminism, Islam and immigrants. He has been especially supportive of President Trump\u2019s aggressive immigration enforcement policy, aimed at people in the country illegally.<\/p>\n
\u201cZero immigration for the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts,\u201d Yiannopoulos said on X last year. <\/p>\n
Yiannopoulos\u2019 arrest and deportation come amid a nationwide uptick in detentions as part of Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown. <\/p>\n
In social media posts, the Department of Homeland Security touted Yiannopoulos\u2019 arrest and posted a booking photo of him. It added that it encourages people in the country illegally to leave voluntarily, saying the U.S. offers \u201c$3,000 and a free flight to self-deport.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWe encourage every person here illegally to take advantage of this offer and reserve the chance to come back to the U.S. the right legal way to live the American dream. If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n
Collins writes for the Associated Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported to the United Kingdom after his arrest by American immigration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1177587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,4094,2438,16254,393,4884,77024,319106,153395,319107,1144,22883,457,1551,712,39362,1017,16,15,1764,319109,319108,319105],"class_list":["post-1177586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-country","tag-department","tag-detention","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-homeland-security","tag-immigration-arrest","tag-immigration-crackdown","tag-nationwide-uptick","tag-northern-ireland","tag-part","tag-people","tag-president-trump","tag-scotland","tag-thursday","tag-u-s","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales","tag-x-last-year","tag-yiannopoulo","tag-yiannopoulos"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117185678622201429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}