Former Superman Actor Dean Cain Says He Is Joining ICE

Dean Cain may have played one of the world’s most famous immigrants on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, but he’s itching to help ramp up deportations in real life. During an appearance on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime on Wednesday, the one-time Superman actor revealed his plans to join the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

“I put out a recruitment video yesterday — 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,” he said. “So now I’ve spoken with some officials over at ICE, and I will be sworn in as an ICE agent ASAP.”

Cain continued by criticizing the United States’ “broken immigration system,” saying, “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.”

“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 added.

Cain, who played Clark Kent/Superman on Lois & Clark from 1993 to 1997, is a vocal supporter of Trump. He recently shared his stance on immigration in a TMZ interview, addressing James Gunn’s comments in The Times of London, which stated that Superman is an “immigrant” and “the story of America.”

“Superman has always stood for ‘truth, justice and the American way,’ and the ‘American way’ is immigrant-friendly, tremendously immigrant-friendly,” Cain said. “But there are rules. You can’t come in saying, ‘I want to get rid of all the rules in America, because I want it to be more like Somalia.’ Well, that doesn’t work, because you had to leave Somalia to come here… There have to be limits, because we can’t have everybody in the United States.”

Cain’s pledge to join ICE comes as the Trump administration has accelerated immigration raids at worksites, streets, and Home Depot parking lots. ICE launched a hiring initiative for 10,000 positions on July 29th, offering recruitment bonuses of up to $50,000 and featuring posters that declared “Defend the Homeland” and “America Needs You.”

The recruitment drive, funded by a recent $76 billion allocation that makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency, has drawn over 80,000 applicants as of Wednesday — a number that now includes Dean Cain.