John Leguizamo condemned former Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman star Dean Cain for volunteering to hitch the USA’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) division.
“What sort of loser volunteers to be an ICE officer?” the Encanto actor, 65, requested through Instagram on Friday, August 9. “What a moron! Dean Cain, your pronouns are has/been.”
Leguizamo captioned the submit: “#DeanCain volunteered to be an ICE agent! I obtained one phrase for you: LOSER!”
Frank Grillo — who starred within the 2025 Superman film — seemingly agreed with Leguizamo general, however differed barely along with his pal’s description of Cain as a “hasbeen.”
“‘By no means was.’ hahahahha,” Grillo, 60, replied.
Academy Award nominee Tatum O’Neal, Empire cocreator Lee Daniels and Purple Rain actress Apollonia Kotero additionally confirmed their help for Leguizamo’s stance.
Cain, 59, introduced earlier this week through social media that he deliberate to hunt employment with the immigration company, which has carried out deportation raids all through the nation since Donald Trump took workplace as president in January.
“For many who don’t know, I’m a sworn regulation enforcement officer, in addition to being a filmmaker. I felt it was vital to hitch with our first responders to assist safe the security of all Individuals,” Cain defined through Instagram . “Not simply speak about it — so I joined up. Right here’s your alternative to hitch ICE.”
The Hit the Flooring actor added, “If you wish to assist save America, ICE is arresting the worst of the worst and eradicating them from America’s streets. I like that, I voted for that. They want your assist to guard our homeland and our households.”
Dean Cain in March 2022. Paras Griffin/Getty Photographs
A spokesperson for the Division of Homeland Safety confirmed to the Related Press on Thursday, August 7, that Cain can be sworn in as an “honorary ICE Officer” later this month.
A number of of Cain’s Hollywood contemporaries took concern with Cain’s alignment with ICE, with former Glee star Kevin McHale branding him a “f***ing pathetic loser” through X on Thursday, August 7.
“Look, I do know the leisure enterprise is in shambles, however think about being so out of labor and determined for consideration (I’d know) that you just be part of ICE?” McHale replied to Cain.
Comic Margaret Cho questioned why Cain would need to participate in ICE immigration raids given his Japanese-American heritage. (Cain has beforehand stated that members of his household have been interred on the Minidoka Conflict Relocation Middle in central Idaho throughout World Conflict II.)
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“You’re Japanese. You’re not even white,” Cho stated through Instagram. “You’re not white. I do know you, and you aren’t white. You may have by no means been white. And irrespective of what number of of those white actions that you just take part in, [it] is rarely gonna make that occur.”
Whereas Cain is primarily identified for his performing roles in Lois & Clark and Supergirl, he does have a background in regulation enforcement. Cain was sworn in as a deputy officer for the St. Anthony Police Division in Idaho in June 2018, and later joined the Frederick County, Virginia Sheriff’s Workplace as a reserve deputy in Might 2022.
Cain advised Fox Information on Tuesday, August 5, that he didn’t plan to put on a masks whereas participating in ICE duties, regardless of recommendation from his dad and mom to take action.
“I’ve simply outed myself utterly proper now,” he stated. “And as a lot as my dad and mom need me to put on a masks as a result of they worry for it, no likelihood in hell.”
