Overview

• On August 8, John Leguizamo called Dean Cain a “moron” in an Instagram video for volunteering to be an ICE officer and mocked his pronouns as “has/been.”
• Cain, best known for his role as Superman, announced on Fox News August 6 that he will be sworn in as an ICE agent “ASAP” after releasing a viral recruitment video.
• Last month, Congress approved boosting ICE’s budget from about $8 billion to $28 billion and removed age caps while offering signing bonuses up to $50,000 to hire 10,000 new agents.
• Leguizamo, who has championed Latino representation in Hollywood, framed Cain’s move as promoting an agency he believes unfairly targets immigrant communities.
• Cain argues that joining ICE is a patriotic calling to address what he sees as a broken immigration system and to support officers he feels are unfairly vilified.