Dean Cain, who played Superman on TV, is joining ICE

He won’t wear a mask — or a cape — but Dean Cain, the actor who played Superman in the ’90s TV show Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, has announced he is joining the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE.

In an Instagram post backed by John Williams’ Superman theme from the 1970s, the actor introduces himself as “a sworn law enforcement officer as well as being a filmmaker,” saying he joined ICE and inviting others to do the same.

Cain says the benefits of working for ICE include a $50,000 signing bonus, student loan repayment, enhanced retirement benefits, and special pay for those in field operations. He claims the agency has arrested “the worst of the worst,” including “hundreds of thousands of criminals, including terrorists, rapists, murderers, pedophiles, MS 13 gang members, drug traffickers — you name it, very dangerous people who are no longer on the streets.”

Speaking on Fox News Wednesday, Cain told host Jesse Watters that he decided to join after sharing one of ICE’s recruitment videos on his Instagram account several days earlier, which Watters had spoken about on his show.

“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,” he said. “So now I’ve spoken with some officials over at ICE, and I will be sworn in as an ICE agent, ASAP.”

Asked if he would be “hopping out of ICE vans and apprehending guys,” the 59-year-old responded: “I will do whatever Director (Todd) Lyons wants me to do. If that’s what it takes, absolutely. I somehow doubt I’ll be in that position but I would be there in a heartbeat.”

Speaking of the latest recruitment drive, an ICE spokesperson told Fox News: “We’ve removed any of the age barriers. We no longer have a cap on how old you can be. We’ll get you trained and ready to be equipped to go out on the streets and help protect families.”

Cain also said he didn’t think he’d be eligible for the $50,000 recruitment bonus, but that he’d “absolutely” take it if he were.

The former Superman is not a fan of this summer’s newest film iteration of the man of steel, which was directed by James Gunn and plays up Superman’s immigrant story.

“How woke is Hollywood going to make this character?” he said to TMZ in an interview last month. “We know Superman is an immigrant — he’s a freaking alien!”

He added: “The ‘American way’ is immigrant friendly, tremendously immigrant friendly. But there are rules … There have to be limits, because we can’t have everybody in the United States. We can’t have everybody, society will fail. So there have to be limits.”

He told Watters on Wednesday: “We have a broken immigration system. Congress needs to fix it, but in the interim, President Trump ran on this. He is delivering on this. This is what people voted for. It’s what I voted for and he’s going to see it through, and I’ll do my part and help make sure it happens.”

Cain has been a longtime and vocal supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, telling Variety magazine : “I’ve been friends with him forever. Trump is actually one of the most empathetic, wonderful, generous people you’ll ever meet.” Trump even enlisted Cain to host his inaugural parade, which was ultimately cancelled due to extreme cold.

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