MAGA influencer and former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos was deported from the United States over the weekend, detained by ICE at an airport in New Orleans before being sent back to the United Kingdom.
In an interview with Piers Morgan, Yiannopoulos said the experience left him more shaken than he expected, and declared he now regrets ever backing Donald Trump.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been afraid before like I was the last week,” he told Morgan. “I didn’t really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the br*tality is in America. They put your manacles, your hands, your feet, chain it together. I mean, everybody who’s arrested is like an MS-13 gang member. I know what it feels like to be really, really terrified.”
Yiannopoulos went further, saying the state of the movement he once championed has left him disillusioned. “If I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have gotten involved in supporting Trump in the first place. And I’m very ashamed that I did.”
Border chief Tom Homan said Yiannopoulos overstayed his visa and failed to appear in immigration court, resulting in a deportation order. Yiannopoulos disputed that account, claiming he held a valid green card through his marriage to an American man and that notices were mailed to old addresses he no longer lived at. He suggested the removal was politically motivated, pointing to conservative commentator Laura Loomer, who publicly claimed credit for reporting him to ICE and the FBI.
The irony has not been lost on critics. Yiannopoulos spent years as one of the loudest voices cheering aggressive immigration enforcement, once posting that “punishing Somalis indiscriminately as a group and deported them all is the only way this administration can persuade the voters it is serious.”
He also declared in 2025 that “we will deport millions and millions of people” and called for “total legal immunity for ICE agents when they’re on duty.”
The reversal echoes an incident from earlier in his career, when Yiannopoulos appeared on the comedy podcast and recounted calling ICE on his own Venezuelan landlord. Now facing the same enforcement apparatus he once cheered on, and previously wielded against others, Yiannopoulos finds himself the target of the very system he helped champion.
When Morgan pressed him on whether it was worth it, Yiannopoulos didn’t back down from his broader legacy.
“It was worth it because it’s always worth it to tell the truth,” he said, insisting he plans to dispute the deportation order through the courts, arguing that proper legal procedure was never followed in his case.
