Actor Dean Cain played Superman on television in the ‘90s. Fast forward to 2025 and he’s become an agent for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Cain told Fox News Digital that he decided to join the ranks because of his respect for the agents and well as his desire to protect and serve the American people.
He is also a deputy sheriff and a reserve police officer. He also wants other Americans to get involved.
“Our ICE agents, who are amazing men and women, are incredible. And they’re black, and they are brown and green and yellow and Japanese and whatever. They’re a cross-section of Americans,” the “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”said.
“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,” he continued. “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.”
“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,” Cain said.
The actor said he was inspired by Daniel Penny, the former Marine acquitted of negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely on a New York subway in 2023, and Dan Bongino, U.S. deputy director of the FBI to make a recruitment video for ICE.
“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,” Cain said.
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He will be sworn in as an “honorary ICE Officer,”Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, the Department of Homeland Security’s spokesperson, said Thursday.
It is not clear what an honorary officer does.
In the interview, he actor talked about what he wants to see the immigration system in America evolve into.
“So, first of all, we can expand the number of people who come in. We have a million people who are allowed in every year. We could expand that number and change the criteria,” he said.
