
‘Deported’ Comic Russell Peters Doesn’t Fear Being Sent Home Under Trump: “They’d Be Damn Foolish to Get Rid of Me”

Stand-up comedy superstar Russell Peters doesn’t fear deportation back to Canada from his home in Los Angeles under Donald Trump.
“In all fairness, the amount of taxes I pay in that country, they’d be damn foolish to get rid of me. Now that’s a bad business move, and since the country is being run like a business, that would be dumb,” the Canadian comedian, who is of Anglo-Indian descent, told The Hollywood Reporter during a global Relax tour stop in Amsterdam.
As a legal immigrant, Peters — whose earlier global tours like Outsourced; Red, White and Brown; The Green Card Tour; and The Deported have centered on the hot-button issue of immigration — isn’t worried about being removed from the U.S. under Trump’s second White House administration.
“Ok, what are they going to do? Send me back to Canada? Whoop-de-do! What a loss for them. Not me.
“In all fairness, the amount of taxes I pay in that country, they’d be damn foolish to get rid of me. Now that’s a bad business move, and since the country is being run like a business, that would be dumb,” the Canadian comedian, who is of Anglo-Indian descent, told The Hollywood Reporter during a global Relax tour stop in Amsterdam.
As a legal immigrant, Peters — whose earlier global tours like Outsourced; Red, White and Brown; The Green Card Tour; and The Deported have centered on the hot-button issue of immigration — isn’t worried about being removed from the U.S. under Trump’s second White House administration.
“Ok, what are they going to do? Send me back to Canada? Whoop-de-do! What a loss for them. Not me.
- 5/26/2025
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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