British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported back to the United Kingdom after his arrest by American immigration authorities, U.S. officials said Saturday.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Yiannopoulos was returned to his home country on Friday after being accused of overstaying after entering the U.S. legally in May 2019. A immigration judge had issued a final order of removal on July 22 after he failed to show up for an immigration hearing, a Homeland Security spokesperson said.

Yiannopoulos was arrested Thursday at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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    Unless he can get special treatment this asshole won’t be able to re-enter the US for at least 5, and more likely 10 years. I’m guessing his promoters won’t be willing to pay him if he’s just another British asshole in Britain. I wonder what he’ll end up doing for cash?

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      He got special treatment.

      Other people being kidnapped by ice sit in those concentration camps for months.

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    So he gets deported right away while others are kept in their cage and refused deportation.

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    Oh he got the white glove treatment cause of his views. Damn.

    Just more evidence of the malice behind the way regular people are treated.

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      Right? Anyone else would be subjected to a detainment center for 10 months and then shipped to a country they have no connection to.

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      I guess he gets sent to his home country (that won’t murder him) because he’s white.

      If you are non-white, you get kidnapped and sent to your home country even if (or probably because) they will likely murder you, or if your home country may not murder you, maybe the destination gets swapped to a country that will imprison you in horrific circumstances even though you have zero ties to that country.

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        as much as I disparage and loathe Milo; he’s not been accused of this? you’d think they’d detain him if there were credible accusations?

        maybe i live in a dream world/twilight zone where people are reasonable.

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          The rightwing commentator’s latest trouble stems from his appearance on an internet livestream last year, during which he said that relationships between adult men and teenage boys can be beneficial.

          In the clip, Yiannopoulos said the age of consent was “not this black-and-white thing” and that relationships “between younger boys and older men … can be hugely positive experiences”.

          He went on to suggest that sex between “younger boys” and older men could be a “coming-of-age relationship … in which those older men help those younger boys discover who they are”.

          The comments drew widespread condemnation. The American Conservative Union rescinded his invitation to speak at its annual CPac conference while Simon & Schuster’s conservative imprint, Threshold Editions, cancelled publication of his upcoming book, Dangerous.

          Amid reports that some Breitbart employees had threatened to leave if Yiannopoulos was not fired, Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow commented that his editor’s comments were “not defensible”.

          https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-breitbart-pedophilia-comments