An open war among conservatives broke out on Friday with accusations flying after ICE arrested a far-right former MAGA ally at a Louisiana airport — a British provocateur who has credited himself with helping elect President Donald Trump.

Agents took Milo Yiannopoulos into custody on Aug. 27 at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, according to a statement posted Friday afternoon by the Department of Homeland Security. The department said an immigration judge had ordered his removal from the country on July 22 after he failed to appear at his hearing.

Yiannopoulos was once one of the most visible figures in pro-Trump media, working as a senior editor at Breitbart News before a 2017 backlash over comments about underage relationships cost him a book deal and a speaking slot at the Conservative Political Action Conference. He was also permanently banned from Twitter in 2016 after a harassment campaign against actress Leslie Jones.

TMZ first broke the news of the arrest at 1:06 p.m. Eastern. Nine minutes later, far-right activist Laura Loomer claimed credit for it, saying she had reported Yiannopoulos to ICE and the FBI.

"Milo is getting deported, but more importantly, Milo is getting LOOMERED," she wrote on X hours before DHS announced the arrest.

Homeland Security confirmed the arrest nearly three hours later, quoting TMZ's story in its own announcement. Loomer replied within three minutes.

"We asked for more deportations, and ICE is delivering," Loomer wrote, referencing her influence with federal agencies.

That influence is documented. The White House fired at least four National Security Council staffers in 2025, along with National Security Agency Director Gen. Timothy Haugh, after Loomer handed President Trump a list of officials she called disloyal, CNN reported.

She spent Friday afternoon aiming that leverage at three conservatives, asking Attorney General Todd Blanche to investigate them for sheltering Yiannopoulos — and before long, calling for more heads to roll.

"Tucker, MTG, and Candace all need to be investigated for allegedly harboring a known illegal alien," Loomer wrote.

Soon after, the Daily Caller — a publication founded by Carlson — posed the question: "Did Laura Loomer Get Milo Yiannopoulos Deported?"

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, both estranged from Trump, announced a new political movement on Aug. 1, accompanied by a photograph from a dinner at Carlson's Maine studio.

"But he's betrayed us all," Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote. "The movement has begun."

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent sat at that table, HuffPost reported. Loomer replied 36 minutes after the photograph was posted.

"Every person in this photo is a traitor to America and an anti-Trump operative amplified by foreign adversaries," she wrote, saying all of them belonged on a government watch list.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's daughter, Lauren Greene Sanders, responded directly to Friday's demand, tagging Blanche and the FBI in her reply.

"Milo NEVER lived there, I am a witness," Lauren Greene Sanders responded, saying she had lived at her mother's house in Rome, Georgia.

Yiannopoulos turned on Trump years before any of them did, telling supporters in 2020 that backing the president had destroyed his career, LGBTQ Nation reported.

"I lost everything helping to put Trump in office," he said.

Until his arrest, Yiannopoulos had been demanding that federal agents be allowed to deport anyone who could not prove legal status on the spot, according to The Telegraph. The arrest underscores how the Trump administration's expanded immigration enforcement has now reached figures from within the president's own onetime coalition, just as a faction of former allies builds an organized opposition movement ahead of the midterms.