Federal immigration agents arrested political provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday, and by Friday he was back home in the United Kingdom — a swift deportation that the Trump administration is pointing to as a model for its broader push to move detainees out of ICE custody faster.
Yiannopoulos, 41, had overstayed his visa and received a final order of removal on July 22 after failing to appear for an immigration hearing, according to the Department of Homeland Security. TMZ first reported that ICE agents picked him up at an airport in Louisiana. His visa, which has since expired, was issued in 2019, DHS said.
Homan: ‘Get them out quick’
In a CNN interview Sunday, White House Border Czar Tom Homan said the Yiannopoulos case is just one example of a strategy the administration has been quietly executing for months: deporting detainees as rapidly as possible to free up detention space and save taxpayer money.
“We’ve been working steadily the last few months on getting people out quicker. That way, we save the taxpayers money on detention space,” Homan said.
“A judge orders them out rather than being in detention waiting for travel documents and flight arrangements. ICE, along with CBP through the Department of Homeland Security, is working really good on the efficiencies of the removal process. Get them out quick, open those beds up for more detainees to be held,” he added.
The former ICE chief said the administration tracks “the average length of stay” of detainees and wants to bring that number down by executing deportation orders “as soon as we get them.”
Data show little change so far
Despite the administration’s emphasis on speed, federal data show the average length of stay for ICE detainees has not yet fallen significantly.
The latest average stay is 49.9 days, according to federal figures. In fiscal year 2025, which ran from October 2024 through September 2025, detainees spent an average of 50.3 days in ICE custody. That compares with 46.9 days in the prior fiscal year, according to agency data.
That means, on average, migrants in ICE detention are currently staying slightly longer than they did a year ago — even as the administration touts efforts to expedite removals.
Homan acknowledged the administration is focused on improving efficiency, but the numbers suggest the impact of the new push has yet to show up in the data.
Yiannopoulos, a British-born former Breitbart editor and prominent figure in the alt-right movement, had been living in the U.S. on a visa that expired. His removal comes after a series of legal and financial troubles in the U.S., including a failed run for a U.S. Senate seat in 2020.
The rapid deportation of a high-profile figure like Yiannopoulos — from arrest to flight home in under 24 hours — illustrates the administration’s goal of streamlining the removal process, even as broader trends in detention times remain flat.
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