The far-right British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, who enthusiastically supported President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, has been arrested and deported for allegedly living in the U.S. illegally.

“On August 27, ICE arrested Milo Yiannopoulos, an illegal alien from the United Kingdom, at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport,” the agency said in a post on X. He entered the country legally in 2019 according to ICE, but he then overstayed. “Yiannopoulos was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on July 22, after failing to show up for his immigration hearing,” the agency said in its statement.

In a separate statement to NPR, ICE said that Yiannopoulos was deported back to the U.K. on Friday.

Yiannopoulos rose to prominence through his provocative statements criticizing political correctness, feminism and Islam. He also drew criticism for his alleged ties to white nationalists.

Yiannopoulos broke the mold of other hard-right figures by identifying as a gay man.

Prior to his arrest, Yiannopoulos had incurred the wrath of some in the MAGA movement for his connection to Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and his criticism of President Trump.

Fall from MAGA grace

Yiannopoulos first gained notoriety two decades ago as a writer for the conservative website Breitbart News. He resigned in 2017 after a video surfaced where he appeared to be endorsing sexual relationships between adult men and “younger boys,” which he later apologized for. That same year he embarked on a tour of college campuses that was marked by student protests over what some deemed hate speech.

Among his more controversial proclamations, he equated feminism with cancer, said the U.S. has “a Muslim problem,” and he created a scholarship exclusively for young white men.

Yiannopoulos went on to intern for Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2022 and helped to run the short-lived presidential campaign of Ye, formerly Kanye West.