John Oliver said ICE’s newest recruit is a sign of how desperate the agency’s latest efforts really are.
President Donald J. Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” included upward of $170 billion to hire immigration enforcers, including money to hire 10,000 more officers for Immigrations and Custom Enforcement. Those new hires include ex-Superman, Dean Cain, who spent the last week promoting ICE’s recruitment drive–and eventually signing up himself.
“For what it’s worth, massive rapid hiring sprees never tend to work out well,” Oliver said in his Sunday monologue for Last Week Tonight. Past efforts to bolster Border Patrol wound up hiring drug cartel members “and an actual serial killer,” he said.
“It’s not a great sign for who ICE is appealing to that they’re currently posting gross r