With the new Superman movie causing so much discourse at the moment, it’s nice to see one former Superman being inspired by it… if only it had been in a positive way:
Former Superman actor Dean Cain has announced he has signed up to join US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), in order to support Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda.
The federal law enforcement agency has aggressively ramped up immigration raids since Trump’s return to the White House and was recently awarded $75bn in extra funding as part of the president’s “big beautiful bill”, which includes billions for hiring an additional 10,000 Ice agents by 2029.
Speaking on Fox News on Wednesday night, Cain told host Jesse Watters that he decided to join Ice after sharing one of their recruitment videos on his Instagram account on Tuesday, which Watters had spoken about on his show.
“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,” Cain told Watters on Wednesday. “So now I’ve spoken with some officials over at Ice, and I will be sworn in as an Ice agent, ASAP.”
Asked what inspired him to join, 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.”
Funny, I could’ve sworn the Unhinged States was founded on white people moving there from Europe and settling there illegally, followed by other white people doing the same thing and declaring the previous lot of white people weren’t white enough, and meanwhile the people already living there were just confused by where all these white people were coming from and where the situation would leave them…
The “woke” discourse around the new Superman film and the latter being an “immigrant”—the ultimate illegal immigrant, indeed, and one you can’t just send back where he came from—is evidently what’s provoking Cain now, cos he’s been a right-wing shit for years; he apparently claimed that he’d been a registered Republican but switched to independent cos the party didn’t represent him, but he seems to have only voted Republican in this century, and he’s a director of the NRA. Plus he’s a reserve officer in three different police forces, one of which is a deputy sheriff position. It’s nice to actually live one’s beliefs, I suppose, and it’s something I can respect, but not when said beliefs are odious and could result in harm to others that don’t deserve it…
Incidentally, I only discovered today Cain is actually quarter-Japanese, his father having been one Roger Tanaka; the latter appears to have bailed on the family before Dean was born, but I suspect that, depending on exactly how old he was, he might have had similar tales to George Takei about being, you know, concentrated for being the “wrong” race that he could’ve told Dean if he’d stuck around, and the latter might have taken them on board and decided this sort of thing he’s now doing is a bit bullshit and needlesly cruel. Or maybe not. Probably not, in fact. Cunt.
