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.
He’s a British Catholic Fascist Nazi who got popular during/just before Trump 1.0 for the usual anti-Islam screeching and college speaking tours. I think he was promoted by Breitbart & Bannon et. al.
he got big mostly because of gamergate I think, pretty sure he was one of the main grifters promoting that bullshit
ah, right I forgot about that
Don’t forget pedophile apologist