Dean Cain Defends Immigration Enforcement, Questions Politics Behind Superman Messaging

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Dean Cain voices support for immigration agencies like ICE and Customs and Border Protection, criticizing politicians and NGOs for villainizing them while failing to reform existing laws. He also questions James Gunn’s political framing of the upcoming Superman reboot, warning it could negatively impact the film’s reception.

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00:00it's being portrayed um as a real negative thing that we want people to follow our immigration laws

00:08which is insane to me like to me it's very it's it's insane these are the laws that were created

00:13by congress here's an agency ice customs and border patrol these they're supposed to support

00:20they're supposed to enforce those laws why are they being villainized for enforcing the laws

00:25that our lawmakers our elected representatives created they want to change the system change

00:30the system change the law that's the deal but they're letting it sit there these entrenched

00:36politicians because that gives them a stump someplace to stump from and someone to vilify the

00:42other side so i think i think we're in a in a bad situation here now because it's being stoked

00:48by politicians and by ngos that are that have a political agenda and and i think bringing

00:56superman into it i think that was a mistake by james gunn to say you know it's an immigrant thing

01:00and i think it's going to hurt the numbers on the movie i was excited for the film i'm excited to see

01:05what it is because james gunn seems to have a sense of humor in the last iterations of superman didn't

01:11have much humor and i love the humor in superman so i'm rooting for it to be a success but i don't

01:16like that last political comment and i saw sean gunn say something about it too and i know sean i

01:21like sean it's his brother and um i just don't i just don't know that that's going to be the right

01:26you know it's he's not going to tank it like alice like a snow white but uh but i don't think it's

01:32going to help i don't think it's going to help the the numbers and and people really need to be

01:36educated on this immigration situation because we are the most immigrant friendly by far country on this

01:43planet

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