Laura Loomer Takes Credit for ICE Detaining Milo Yiannopoulos

President Trump confidant Laura Loomer is taking credit for far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos being taken in federal custody for deportation.The Department of Homeland Security says Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Mr. Yiannopoulos, a United Kingdom citizen, on Thursday at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport at Kenner, Louisiana.Homeland Security says Mr. Yiannopoulos entered the country legally in 2019 but overstayed his visa. A judge issued a final order of removal for Mr. Yiannopoulos on July 22 for failing to show up for his immigration hearing.Conservative commentator Laura Loomer celebrated Mr. Yiannopoulos’s detainment in a series of X posts on Friday afternoon. She pointed to a March post in which she questioned why the Trump administration had not deported him for allegedly being in the country on an expired visa. Ms. Loomer has met with Mr. Trump several times at the White House and has been credited with getting several members of Mr. Trump’s National Security Council staff fired for being disloyal to the president’s agenda.“Milo is going to be deported back to the UK where he can live among the Muslims he has recently chosen to embrace,” Ms. Loomer said in one post.Mr. Yiannopoulos is a former editor of Breitbart and has described himself the “most fabulous supervillain on the internet.” Critics — such as the Anti-Defamation League — call him a “misogynistic, racist, xenophobic, transphobic troll.”Mr. Yiannopoulos, a onetime outspoken supporter of Mr. Trump has shifted to become a vocal critic of the president and has become an enemy of some on the right.Mr. Yiannopoulos has supported ramped up ICE enforcement actions. In a June 2025 X post he stated, “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.”TMZ reported that Mr. Yiannopoulos may have been detained as he headed to the New Orleans Caesars Superdome to attend a concert. Kanye West was scheduled to perform at the venue on Friday evening. Mr. Yiannopoulos worked as Mr. West’s chief of staff for nearly two years.Federal officials say Mr. Yiannopoulos will remain in custody pending removal.“DHS reversed the horrendous Biden-era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country. Under President Trump, DHS will no longer tolerate this,” A Homeland Security spokesman said Friday in an emailed comment to the Sun. “This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport.”

Laura Loomer Takes Credit for ICE Detaining Milo Yiannopoulos

Laura Loomer Takes Credit for ICE Detaining Milo Yiannopoulos

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