Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos deported from US to UK - BBC News

The self-styled provocateur had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Image source, DHSImage caption, The Department of Homeland Security released a mugshot of Yiannopoulos

British right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the United States after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Yiannopoulos, 41, a former editor of Breitbart News and one time political aide to rapper Kanye West, was deported on Friday, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Yiannopoulos, "an illegal alien from the United Kingdom" had been sent "back to his home country", a DHS spokesperson said in a statement given to the BBC.

The self-styled provocateur has called himself the "most fabulous supervillain on the internet" and advocated for stricter US immigration controls. His critics call him a purveyor of hate speech.