Dean Cain has signed up to work for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Dean told Fox News host Jesse Watters he had decided to join ICE after the presenter shared a recruitment video on his Instagram.

He said: "I'm actually a sworn deputy sheriff and a reserve police officer - 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.

"So now I've spoken with some officials over at Ice, and I will be sworn in as an ICE agent, ASAP."

Dean believes the current immigration system is "broken" so he is keen to do what he can to support the president.

He said: "This country was built on patriots stepping up, whether it was popular or not, and doing the right thing. I truly believe this is the right thing.

"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.

"I'm stepping up. Hopefully, a whole bunch of other former officers, former ICE agents, will step up and we'll meet those recruitment goals immediately, and we'll help protect this country."

Dean recently expressed concern that James Gunn has made Superman too "woke" in his new movie, which stars David Corenswet.

The actor - who played the superhero in Lois + Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993 to 1997 told TMZ: "How woke is Hollywood going to make this character? How much is Disney going to change their Snow White? Why are they going to change these characters [to] exist for the times?"

James had previously compared his movie to "the story of America", with a central character who is "an immigrant that came from other places and populated the country."

Referencing the traditional Superman motto of "Truth, justice, and the American way" - which has evolved over the years and has most recently been "Truth, justice, and a better tomorrow", Dean said: "We know Superman is an immigrant - he's a freaking alien...

"The 'American way' is immigrant friendly, tremendously immigrant friendly. But there are rules.

"You can't come in saying, 'I want to get rid of all the rules in America, because I want it to be more like Somalia.' Well that doesn't work, because you had to leave Somalia to come here... There have to be limits, because we cant have everybody in the United States. We can't have everybody, society will fail. So there have to be limits."