Stone-faced Kanye West surfaces in New Orleans with wife Bianca Censori amid his publicist Milo Yiannopoulos's shock ICE detainment

Kanye West was spotted arriving in New Orleans with wife Bianca Censori on Friday, ahead of his concert.

The 49-year-old rapper and 31-year-old Australian beauty flew into the city and were escorted to Caesars Superdome for West's show.

He appeared solemn, wearing black sunglasses and a stony expression while seated in the back of a black vehicle.

For her part, Censori was dressed in a low-cut, black, sleeveless top and high heels, with her copper-tinged hair flowing down her back in a straight style.

It comes amid his publicist Milo Yiannopoulos's detainment and subsequent deportation by ICE on Saturday.

According to TMZ, West did not mention the headline-making news during his show. 

Yiannopoulos was pictured in a photo released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, wearing a black T-shirt and appearing sullen.

On Thursday he was arrested at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana and placed in a holding facility after getting off a flight. 

DHS said Yiannopoulos legally entered the US in 2019 but 'chose to overstay his welcome' and violated immigration laws.

The right-wing provocateur has since landed back in the United Kingdom, with TMZ reporting that he arrived on Saturday morning PST/evening GMT. 

He previously served as West's chief of staff and was an editor at the fringe right-wing publication Breitbart.

Yiannopoulos, who has been a vocal supporter of mass deportation, was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge on July 22 and failed to show up for his immigration hearing, according to DHS.

'Being in detention is a choice,' the department added, encouraging undocumented migrants to self-deport for $3,000 and a free flight to their nation of origin.

Laura Loomer took credit for Yiannopoulos's arrest in a phone call with the New York Times. 

'I have been saying this should happen for a long time and now it did,' she told the publication, adding that Yiannopoulos had been 'Loomered!'

Loomer and Yiannopoulos were once allies but had a public falling out. Former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X that Yiannopoulos worked on Loomer's former political campaigns.

'Milo Yiannopoulos is in ICE custody after I exposed his illegal alien lifestyle. Marjorie Traitor Greene hired Milo to work as her “intern” where he produced her podcast, wrote her book and lived at her house in Rome, Georgia before she sold it,' Loomer claimed on X. 

Greene denied Yiannopoulos lived with her, calling Loomer a 'vile liar.' 

Since his rise to fame as a political commentator, Yiannopoulos has been an advocate of immigration restriction and mass deportations. 

He said in 2017 that he was in America on an O-1 nonimmigrant visa, which is granted to aliens with an 'extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics,' according to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. 

Yiannopoulos has a longstanding association with West and acted as director of political operations on his 2024 US presidential campaign.