Peter Mullan calls Trump administration's immigration attacks 'disgusting'

Peter Mullan, the Braveheart actor, told Variety at the International Film Festival Rotterdam that he finds the Trump administration's immigration attacks "disgusting," comments published a week after the fatal shooting of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti. Mullan said he recently cancelled a planned family trip to Las Vegas because he feared being pulled at the airport over his left-wing views.

"I'd never have thought, in a billion years, that we would actively not want to go to America," he told Variety, saying he didn’t trust border control "not to look into my politics" and worried officers "wouldn't take care of my son, who has cognitive issues." He argued that the historical "horrors" produced by politicians such as Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Nigel Farage and Jair Bolsonaro are being rewritten "as we speak." Mullan added: "The Trump bandwagon will tell you: 'Don't believe your own eyes, don't believe what you see.'...

That's what's so disgusting about what Trump is doing: he's trying to turn Americans against Americans." He also said when Trump speaks of a "good immigrant" and a "bad immigrant" he means "There's a white immigrant and a Black or brown immigrant," and suggested attempts to cast the slain Pretti as a radical leftist had not succeeded: "But what if he were Black?

Forget about it." Mullan's remarks come amid broader Hollywood criticism of immigration enforcement.

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