Updated on: August 28, 2026 / 2:25 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to the agency’s online detainee database.
Reports indicate Yiannopoulos, who is British, was in New Orleans ahead of a Kanye West concert scheduled for Friday night. TMZ first reported Yiannopoulos’ status.
CBS News has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and ICE for additional details and the basis for his apprehension.
Yiannopoulos has done work for West’s political and corporate ambitions.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
My “don’t trust an adult convert to any religion” rule continues to be vindicated.
Do you consider Buddhists a part of this rule, since it is not a religion?
I dunno enough about Buddhism to say for sure.
as long as it’s not orthodox
/genuine I know very little about Buddhism, but isn’t it an religion? If not, what is Buddhism then?
Buddhism does not map 1:1 with the Western concept of religion and doesn’t preclude membership in a faith.
It’s kind of in a grey area, rather than being black and white. Materialism is not a religion, Christianity is a religion. Buddhism isn’t so clearly a religion or not a religion.
A better term to describe it might be “Philosophy” or “way of life”
Most of Buddhism as it is practiced is clearly a religion even if it does not look like Abrahamic religions, and it certainly is not “a philosophy,” except insofar as we conflate philosophy and theology, i.e. not making it less of a religion, though it is certainly true that philosophy is much more central to many types of Buddhism than it is to many other major religions (all of which of course have philosophy but do not make it the central element, prioritizing rituals/worship or personal mystical experience or whatever else, as some popular types of Buddhism also do).
Outside of, maybe, Zen, I would certainly not call Buddhism merely “a way of life” because it has much more particular beliefs about the world outside of one’s material personal practice, though again it encompasses many ways of life, as other religions also do.
Not even Shawn Michaels?