Dean Cain holds deep respect for ICE agents, so he has chosen to join their ranks.
In a recent interview with Fox News Digital, the actor known for playing Superman shared that his decision to become involved with ICE mirrors his earlier commitment nearly a decade ago to law enforcement — driven by a desire to protect and serve the American people.
Famous for his role in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Cain currently serves as a deputy sheriff and a reserve police officer. He encourages others to consider joining law enforcement if they have the chance.
“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,” Cain told Fox News Digital. “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.
“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.
Cain called Daniel Penny, the former Marine acquitted in the 2023 subway incident involving Jordan Neely, and Dan Bongino, the FBI’s United States deputy director, American heroes. Inspired by their stories, he chose to film a recruitment video for ICE as the agency sought new agents, expressing strong support for their mission.
“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,” he said.
“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 will be sworn in as an “honorary ICE Officer” soon, according to Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin of the Department of Homeland Security. Details of his honorary duties have not yet been disclosed.
For Cain, the most important thing is showing solidarity with the “brave” men and women handling immigration enforcement in the U.S.
He also shared his thoughts on how the immigration system should evolve.
“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.
Cain criticized the current system’s “weird programs,” including the lottery, and praised President Donald Trump’s $5 million gold card initiative as a smart way to streamline citizenship.
“I think merit is a huge part of it. What do you bring to the United States? How do you make this country better? What are you going to bring? What are you going to do? It’s like that $5 million gold card or whatever that is that President Trump put through.
“Those people will contribute to everybody, and that does flow to everybody. When that money is here in the United States and those jobs are here in the United States, that flows to everybody. So, I would like to see that open up, that meritocracy open up, and I would like to see a more streamlined process where it doesn’t take someone seven years to come over legally,” Cain added.
A significant focus of Trump’s presidential campaign was immigration, including deporting illegal immigrants. Cain expressed approval of how the current administration has handled the issue but stressed the need for legislative reform.
“I’m very happy with what’s going on in this administration. I’d like to see them fix the immigration situation. That would be great if someone introduced legislation to change our immigration system, to fix it. I would love to see that. I don’t see that.
“All I hear is, I see people running away from Congress, getting on a plane so they don’t have to vote, screaming at this, screaming at that, but not doing anything. So, I’d like to see some immigration reform take place,” Cain concluded.
