FORMER SUPERMAN ACTOR Dean Cain has announced he is joining the United States’ immigrations and customs enforcement agency (ICE) as it tries to recruit more personnel to carry out mass deportations.

Cain, best known for playing an alien from the fictional planet of Krypton who immigrated to Earth, has said he will “be sworn in as an ICE agent” soon to join the Trump-led clampdown on immigration to the US.

The actor and director is also a reserve police officer and has called for others with a background in law enforcement to join ICE, which recently set new recruitment targets.

“I’ve spoken with some officials over at ICE and I will be sworn in as an ICE agent ASAP,” Cain told Fox News, a day after he put out a video about the agency’s recruitment drive.

Cain played Superman/Clark Kent on the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman between 1993 and 1997.

The 59-year-old was once registered as Republican but later left the party and registered as an Independent. He has said he voted for Bill Clinton, a Democrat, twice, but went on to support Republican candidates like John McCain, Rick Perry and Donald Trump in more recent presidential elections.

Cain pictured in the Superman role, which he played from 1993 to 1997 Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

Trump has poured billions into trying to increase the number of immigrants who are deported from the US or prevented from crossing the border.

Amnesty International has criticised his plans, saying that they “rely on mass arrests, detentions, and removals of both long standing and recently arrived people”.

“His actions are depriving asylum-seekers and migrants the opportunity to ask for safety, throw them into arbitrary detention, return them to harm, separate families, tear apart communities, subject people to racial profiling, spread fear, and undermine human security, prosperity, and dignity,” the human rights organisation said.