Aziz Ansari revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Live that he carries his passport in every single place in Los Angeles.

Aziz Ansari says his return to Los Angeles after a protracted stretch overseas got here with an sudden accent—his passport—pushed by nervousness over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement exercise within the metropolis.

The Emmy-winning actor and comic, who now resides in London, opened up about his apprehension throughout an look on Jimmy Kimmel Live, citing the seen uptick in immigration enforcement as the explanation behind his unease.

“I haven’t been in LA in a while. I haven’t been here since all this ICE stuff started happening,” Ansari, 42, told host Jimmy Kimmel. “I’m all nervous. I got friends, they’re like, ‘We’re hiding our nanny in the basement. We might have to raise our kids. We don’t know what we’re going to do.’”

The creator of Master of None didn’t maintain again when describing how the present immigration local weather has personally affected him, even joking about the opportunity of being mistaken for somebody undocumented.

“I’m on edge, man. I’m carrying my passport all the time, just in case people haven’t seen the shows, you know?” he mentioned. “Although I do assume it will be wonderful in the event that they did seize me, ’trigger there’d be an unbelievable viral video the place all these persons are like, ‘Oh my god, that’s the man from Parks and Rec… he made Master of None. Oh my god, they’re arresting (Pakistani-American actor) Kumail Nanjiani!

Ansari’s remarks come on the heels of a Department of Homeland Security report stating that ICE had detained 5,000 people in Los Angeles between June and late August.

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