Ted, a recently deported British citizen who grew up in the United States, went viral for his Friday interview with The Telegraph.
In the interview, Ted (not his real name) maintains that he deserved to be deported.
“Unlawful presence after learning that I was unlawfully present, right? I’m not making excuses. I should have been deported,” Ted said, speaking of his arrest. “There is an illegal immigration crisis in America, and any president that wants a lawfully ordered nation has the right and the duty and the obligation to enforce deportation.” (RELATED: Trump Tells British Newspaper He’s ‘Very Disappointed’ In Prime Minister Keir Starmer)
Ted’s remarks quickly garnered attention online, with right-wing commentators generally praising his integrity. The Telegraph posted a brief clip of its discussion with Ted to X with the caption: “Immigrants sent to the UK by the US say they lack support to survive in a strange land.”
🗣️ ‘ICE deported me to Britain – it’s a dump’
Immigrants sent to the UK by the US say they lack support to survive in a strange land.
Watch the full report here ⬇️https://t.co/DujhUWZhK5 pic.twitter.com/muxEOR8T7X
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 13, 2026
Ted told the Daily Caller he “wasn’t terrifically satisfied with the way that The Telegraph tweeted [his] portion of their segment.”
“The title they used for the tweet was, or the caption they used for the tweet was something like, ‘People deported from the U.S. to the U.K. are unhappy with the benefits they’re receiving,’ and that’s never been my position. I haven’t taken taxpayer money. I’m not asking for Keir Starmer to help me resettle. So I don’t understand why they use the caption for the entire piece where there were other people who were maybe more in line with that, and then applied it to just my segment, but for the people who actually watched, I think they were sort of pleasantly surprised by the fact that I was taking ownership of being responsible for my own deportation,” Ted said.
I asked Ted to elaborate on other major misconceptions in The Telegraph’s coverage.
“Major misconceptions … That I’m like a Trump loyalist, MAGA cultist, staunch Republican, and that does not encapsulate the nuance of my political positions at all.”
“I would also say, because I was included in that, in that piece with the other two, that the misconception was I was dissatisfied with the amount of stuff I’m getting, or that I think I’m entitled to more, and then also because they included the clip from my TikTok that my most viral Tiktok of last year, referring to the U.K. in rather offensive manners.”
The Telegraph quoted Ted as saying, in that viral TikTok, “Now I’m in the United Kingdom and this country sucks and has made me more America First, because you see that outside of London, all of England is a Third World country, a dump. I hate it here and I’m excited and ready to go back to the United States.” (RELATED: England Continues Cultural Erasure By Pulling Winston Churchill From Currency)
Ted continued: “It seems, the impression that’s given from what The Telegraph put out is, ‘Here is a guy who hates the place he is and is un-self-aware of the fact that he is a criminal who is privileged, who is honored to be in the U.K.,’ and that’s not what I think at all.”
Ted told the Caller that immediately following his deportation he made a social media profile.
“I was discussing the circumstances of my deportation and my political opinions, sort of taking the position that as someone who is deported, in the midst of all that was going on with the [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] protests and all that, I wanted to say something like, ‘Hey, I was deported, and I think it was justified.’ I’m not here saying, ‘I hate Trump. I hate ICE.’ I did reside unlawfully in the United States for a period of time which warranted my deportation.”
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