US detains Milo Yiannopoulos, who compared Israel with Nazi Germany
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained British right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at New Orleans’ international airport on August 27. The Department of Homeland Security said he would remain in custody pending removal from the country.
According to the department, Yiannopoulos legally entered the United States through New York on May 14, 2019, but stayed beyond his authorized period. An immigration judge issued a final removal order on July 22 after he failed to attend his hearing. The Associated Press confirmed those details and reported that his representatives did not respond to a request for comment; it was unclear whether he had a lawyer.
Yiannopoulos had publicly supported tougher immigration enforcement. He called for a 20-year halt to immigration and, in 2025, proposed ICE checkpoints outside supermarkets and other public places, with immediate removal of people unable to prove legal status. Both AP and the libertarian magazine Reason noted those statements.
Yiannopoulos became prominent in the 2010s as an editor at the right-wing outlet Breitbart and a provocative public supporter of Donald Trump. He openly identified as gay for years and married a man in 2017, but in 2021 described himself as “ex-gay” and began advocating conversion therapy. He later worked with the rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, and Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
In recent years, Yiannopoulos also adopted a sharply critical position toward Israel. In an August 2025 interview with Candace Owens, he claimed that by the end of the war “Netanyahu’s Israel” would surpass Nazi Germany morally and probably in the number of deaths. The wording comes from a published transcript of the interview and represents Yiannopoulos’s opinion, not an established fact.
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