Alan Cumming has lived in the US for over 25 years, but now more than ever he’s grateful to have a Scottish bolthole.

Fully fledged New Yorker Alan, 60, describes ‘terrifying’ ICE raids that took place just miles away from his current position as he chats with Metro over the phone.

‘I am very lucky that I have another life and another existence in Scotland, and it’s just sort of funny, I’m walking along the street right now in New York, and you wouldn’t know anything was different,’ explains Alan, who became a US citizen in 2008.

‘But this is New York, and yet ICE have been less than a mile away from me right now in Chinatown, taking people off the streets. It’s terrifying.

‘People are afraid to speak out, and people are afraid of losing their jobs and people are afraid of being deport

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