Dean Cain, who played Superman on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, says he is joining U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to back Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies. It comes at a time when ICE has been in the spotlight more than usual, with a lot of talk about raids and deportations.
This all started after Cain put a recruitment video from ICE on his Instagram. Then Jesse Watters mentioned it on Fox News, which Cain said really made things blow up.
He said: “I’m actually a sworn deputy sheriff and a reserve police officer – I wasn’t part of ICE, but once I put that out there and you put a little blurb on your show, it went crazy. So now I’ve spoken with some officials over at ICE, and I will be sworn in as an ICE agent, ASAP.
“This country was built on patriots stepping up, whether it was popular or not, and doing the right thing. I truly believe this is the right thing.” He also said: “We have a broken immigration system. Congress needs to fix it, but in the interim, President Trump ran on this.
“He is delivering on this. This is what people voted for. It’s what I voted for and he’s going to see it through, and I’ll do my part and help make sure it happens.
“I’m stepping up. Hopefully, a whole bunch of other former officers, former ICE agents, will step up and we’ll meet those recruitment goals immediately, and we’ll help protect this country.”
ICE has been arresting more people lately, about 3,000 a day after Trump’s re-election. That includes undocumented immigrants but also some who have legal status and even citizens.
There have been protests, and some people who tried to film ICE making arrests have ended up in jail. Cain said he thinks keeping the country secure is more important than those protests.
He also has been talking about Hollywood, saying the latest Superman movie is “woke” and that other characters are being changed too much.
When talking with the media, Cain said: “How woke is Hollywood going to make this character? How much is Disney going to change their Snow White? Why are they going to change these characters [to] exist for the times?
“We know Superman is an immigrant – he’s a freaking alien … The ‘American way’ is immigrant friendly, tremendously immigrant friendly. But there are rules … There have to be limits, because we can’t have everybody in the United States. We can’t have everybody, society will fail. So there have to be limits.”
Cain’s decision to join ICE lines him up with Trump’s tough stance on immigration. What happens when he actually starts the job is still to be seen, but people will be watching.
