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Ex-Superman actor joins ICE to support Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration
“I truly believe this is the right thing.”
August 07, 2025, 05:46 PM
Dean Cain, 59, an American actor who starred as Superman in the 1990s, revealed that he has signed up to join U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to support U.S. President Donald Trump’s mass immigration crackdown.
On Aug. 5, the former star of the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, took to social media to announce that he was joining ICE.
“For those who don’t know, I am a sworn law enforcement officer, as well as being a filmmaker, and I felt it was important to join with our first responders to help secure the safety of all Americans, not just talk about it. So I joined up,” he said in a video post.
Asked followers to join ICE
He proceeded to persuade his followers to join the federal law enforcement agency, listing benefits recruits could enjoy, such as a US$50,000 (S$64,000) signing bonus and student loan repayment.
“Here’s your opportunity to join ICE. 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…
So if you want to help save America, ICE is arresting the worst of the worst and removing them from America's streets.
I like that. I voted for that.”
Since Trump’s second term began in January, ICE has conducted an unprecedented number of immigration raids across the country, aiming for at least 3,000 arrests each day.
However, as of early July, close to 30,000 people out of at least 56,000 people held in ICE detention have no criminal record, according to NPR, despite claims by the Trump administration that the arrests and mass deportations are targeting criminals.
ICE has also drawn criticism for arresting residents with protected legal status, and even American citizens, as well as housing its detainees in confinement centres with supposedly harsh and inhumane conditions.
Called James Gunn’s Superman “woke”
This is not the first time Cain has made headlines lately.
Less than a month ago, he criticised James Gunn’s 2025 iteration of Superman as “woke”, after the director described the film as “the story of America” and Superman as “an immigrant that came from other places and populated the country”.
Cain told TMZ that he had been excited to see the new film, but disapproved of Gunn’s political comment.
“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?” he said.
He added, “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; our society will fail.”
“Doing the right thing”
The Guardian reported that, as part of Trump’s “big beautiful bill”, ICE was recently granted extra funding worth US$75 billion (S$96 billion), including billions of dollars to recruit 10,000 new agents by 2029.
On Aug. 6, Cain told Fox News host Jesse Watters during a show that he has “spoken with some officials over at ICE” and will be sworn in as an agent “ASAP”.
Asked his reason for joining, Cain said, “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.
“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.”
Top images via Dean Cain/IMDb & U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
