Actor Dean Cain has announced that he will support the Trump Administration’s immigration policies by becoming an ICE agent.
Cain, known for starring in the TV series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” from 1993 to 1997, is already a deputy sheriff and reserve police officer.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin of the Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that Cain will be sworn in as an honorary ICE officer, though it wasn’t immediately clear what his duties will be.
“Our ICE agents, who are amazing men and women, are incredible,” Cain told Fox News Digital. “And they’re black, and they are brown and green and yellow and Japanese and whatever. They’re a cross-section of Americans. They are doing their job, the job that Congress wrote the laws for them to support and uphold, and they’re doing the job of deporting people who are here illegally.”
Cain is part Japanese and was born Dean George Tanaka in 1966. He has said that several relatives on his father’s side were incarcerated at the Minidoka camp in Idaho during World War II.
“If you’re a legal citizen here in this country, no worries, you’re great, but if you’re here illegally, you’ve broken the law to begin with, whatever the circumstances are,” he continued. “You had multiple opportunities to self-deport, and the fact that these men and women who are doing their jobs are getting vilified, I had to stand up with them and for them because I think it takes people standing up to change the culture.”
He added, “I know it’s controversial, but I support what they’re doing. It’s controversial because people look at it emotionally as opposed to what the law is and what we’re trying to do here. And then they don’t look at it critically and think, you know, ‘What does allowing 20 million people into this country illegally do to voting, to our services, our health support services, our social services?’ It destroys it.
“Social Security, Medicaid, it just destroys everything that we have worked for and built in this country for American citizens. As compassionate as we wanna be, we can’t take in everybody.”
Encouraging his fans to join ICE, Cain wrote, “You can earn lots of great benefits and pay. Since President Trump took office, ICE has arrested hundreds of thousands of criminals, including terrorists, rapists, murderers, pedophiles, MS-13 gang members, drug traffickers, you name it – very dangerous people who are no longer on the streets.”
Cain has gotten some criticism from public figures.
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) said, “Superman was an immigrant who helped ordinary people regardless of where they were from. And he didn’t wear a mask. Dean Cain wants to cosplay as an ICE agent. Sort of the opposite. Not a job for real heroes.”
Comic and actress Margaret Cho asked in a video posted to her Instagram account, “Why would you join ICE and encourage people to join ICE when your ancestors were interned in World War II? … You’re Japanese. You’re not even white … I know you, and you are not white.”
John Oliver, host of “Last Week Tonight,” joked, “You know, there’s an old saying in Hollywood: If all you can get is Dean Cain, you are f—ed.
“Now, I’m not saying that ICE isn’t finding people. I’m just saying, when you are reduced to pinning a badge on the 59-year-old star of ‘The Dog Who Saved Christmas,’ ‘The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation,’ ‘The Dog Who Saved the Holidays,’ ‘The Dog Who Saved Halloween,’ ‘The Dog Who Saved Easter’ and ‘The Dog Who Saved Summer,’ maybe you are in trouble.”
Cain recently made headlines for criticizing the new “Superman” movie as too “woke” because it emphasizes that the Man of Steel is an immigrant from another planet.