Former Superman actor Dean Cain is getting dragged faster than a speeding bullet for becoming the new face of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Cain played superman in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
A vocal supporter of President Trump, the once beloved TV star is now being called a “loser” after announcing plans to join ICE as it steps up efforts to remove undocumented immigrants from the U.S.
John Leguizamo unloaded on Cain in a video he posted to Instagram on Friday, Aug. 8.
“What kind of loser volunteers to be an ICE officer? What a moron. Dean Cain, your pronouns are has/been,” the Emmy-winning actor, comedian and Latino rights activist said.
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Actress, comedian and musician Margaret Cho posted a video to Instagram on Thursday, reminding Cain that his biological father, Roger Tanaka, was of Japanese descent.
“Why would you join ICE and encourage people to join ICE when your ancestors were interned in World War II?” Cho asked in the video. “You’re Japanese. You’re not even white… I know you, and you are not white.”
Cho added, “You’re never going to be white, no matter how racist you are, no matter how wrong you act — always wrong, never white. Dumbass.”
On Wednesday, Cain appeared on Fox News. He said he made a recruitment video for ICE and was planning to be “sworn in as an ICE agent, ASAP.”
USA Today reports Cain lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, a city the Justice Department has targeted for being a sanctuary jurisdiction.
At 59, Cain is older than ICE’s previous age limit for new law enforcement hires, which had been 37 or 40 depending on the role, the paper reported.
On Friday, Nevada’s Republican Governor Joe Lombardo’s office told the local media Lombardo would be calling in the National Guard to help increase ICE enforcement in the state.
“Governor Lombardo is in the process of authorizing the Nevada National Guard to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a temporary, administrative capacity,” Elizabeth Ray, a spokesperson for the governor’s office, said.
The Trump administration bypassed California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and deployed almost 5,000 California National Guard soldiers to Los Angeles to quell anti-ICE protests in June, which Newsom said was done unlawfully.
On July 31, Newsom released a statement saying all but 300 of those troops had been sent home and urged Trump to demobilize the remaining members of the National Guard.
“President Trump is realizing that his political theater backfired,” Newsom said. “This militarization was always unnecessary and deeply unpopular. The President must do the right thing to end this illegal militarization now because the economic and societal impacts are dire. The women and men of our military deserve more than to be used as props in the federal government’s propaganda machine.”
According to Newsom’s office, the Trump administration’s detentions and deportations of immigrants has had dire consequences on the state and local economies.
Newsom’s office said “the loss of immigrant workers, undocumented and those losing lawful status under the Trump administration” will ultimately delay rebuilding projects after this year’s Los Angeles wildfires, reduce the food supply, and drive up food costs because there will be fewer immigrant farm workers.
“Undocumented immigrants contributed $8.5 billion in state and local taxes in 2022 — a number that would rise to $10.3 billion if these taxpayers could apply to work lawfully,” the governor’s office added.
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