Hollywood, CA USA - November 27, 2022. Dean Cain attends the 90th Anniversary Hollywood Christmas Parade. (Photo credit: Michael Mattes / Shutterstock)
The Daily Beast reports comedian and podcaster Margaret Cho tore into 1990s actor Dean Cain for enlisting in ICE for a DHS recruitment video.
“You’ll never be white,” Cho told Cain in her own video posted to Instagram. “Why would you join ICE and encourage people to join ICE when your ancestors were interned in World War II?”
The "Lois & Clark’" star posted a video on X urging Americans to join ICE and take advantage of “lots of great benefits and pay” while helping to arrest “hundreds of thousands of criminals, including terrorists, rapists, murderers, pedophiles, MS-13 gang members, drug traffickers, you name it — very dangerous people.”
“Also, you don’t need an undergraduate degree,” said Cain. “You can get to work right away.”
The Beast reports that seven of every 10 migrants detained by ICE, as of July 27, don’t have a criminal record in the U.S. The American Prospect, meanwhile, claims ICE sweeps use classic “racial profiling” and that “it’s clear that they’re preponderantly seizing people because they look Latino, or possibly Black or Asian.”
Cain, who identifies himself as a “sworn law enforcement officer, as well as being a filmmaker”, claims “it was important to join with our first responders to help secure the safety of all Americans, not just talk about it.”
But Cho slammed Cain for ignoring his roots, being Japanese on his father’s side.
“You’re Japanese,” she said, “You’re not even white. … I know you, and you are not white. You have never been white, and no matter how many of these white activities you participate in, it’s never gonna make that happen. No matter how racist you are. No matter how wrong you act. You will always be wrong — but never white. Dumba——.”
Read the Daily Beast report at this link.