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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    17 hours ago

    Come on, hold him in perpetuity like he is brown. He might have had a chance to learn something.

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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.