Dean Cain found himself reliving a late-night takedown on camera last night when Piers Morgan made him sit through a Last Week Tonight with John Oliver segment mocking his work and recent decision to join U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

On Monday’s episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, Morgan cued up Oliver’s bit from Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, in which the host ridiculed Cain for becoming an ICE recruit.

“On the plus side, no need for that guy to wear a mask because the chances of anyone recognizing him are f*cking zero.” Oliver joked. “You know, there’s an old saying in Hollywood. If all you can get is Dean Cain, you are f*cked. I’m not saying that ICE isn’t finding people, I’m just saying when you are reduced to pinning a badge on the 59-year-old star of The Dog Who Saved Christmas, The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation, The Dog Who Saved the Holidays, The Dog Who Saved Halloween, The Dog Who Saved Easter, and The Dog Who Saved Summer, maybe you are in trouble.”

After the clip rolled, Morgan turned to his guest and asked for his response.

Cain shot back with a laugh: “Why does John Oliver hate dogs? So I did a lot of dog movies. Yeah, I’ve done over 200 movies. You know, I’ve done tons of films and thousands of hours of television. Um, John Oliver is making a point, I guess, that I’m 59 years old and I’ve joined ICE.”

He continued by inviting critics to take their best shot. “Go ahead and denigrate my career, which is weird — it’s an odd thing to do — but what I’m doing is I’m standing up for the men and women of ICE,” Cain said.

The former Lois & Clark star pointed to his long-running ties to law enforcement. “I’m a sworn deputy sheriff, I’m a reserve police officer, I have been for almost a decade now,” he noted, adding that ICE agents are “being vilified, they’re being attacked, they’re being doxed, and they’re out there trying to do their job.”

“They’re doing the job that the American people hired them for, that Congress wrote the laws for, they’re doing it very, very well,” Cain continued. He recalled initially appearing in a recruitment video that sparked speculation he had officially joined ICE. “Everybody thought that I actually joined ICE, and then after the hullabaloo I spoke with some ICE officials and I said, ‘You know what, why not swear me in? Let’s do this.’”

Now, he says, “I’m 100% proud to stand with our agents of ICE. I love these people. They’re wonderful men and women and husbands and fathers of every ethnicity, every race, every background.” Cain also claimed the agency has seen “over 100,000, or close to 100,000 applicants now.”

Cain wrapped up by pointing out he’s not just taking flak from Oliver. “You can make the cheap jibes, and it’s funny, and Bill Maher did it and a couple of our congressmen did it too, but you know, the fact that I’m being pilloried or attacked for joining up with a federal law enforcement agency is insane. I did it to protect Americans and men and women of ICE.”

Watch the full clip at the top of this post.