Dr. Phil McGraw joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers and high Trump administration officers on Sunday (January 26) for a collection of focused immigration arrests throughout the Chicago space.
The long-time TV host took to X (previously Twitter) on Sunday, the place he introduced, “Dr Phil is embedded with @RealTomHoman for ICE operation in Chicago.” He shared a video alongside the submit, noting how that is “a reasonably high-risk mission we’re happening.”
“This actually is a focused ICE mission, as a result of they’re not sweeping neighborhoods like persons are making an attempt to suggest. I do know that as a result of I’ve been concerned on this going into this,” he continued, noting that ICE has recognized 270 “high-value targets.”
“These are recognized criminals and terrorists,” McGraw added. “We’re speaking about murderers, baby traffickers, baby rapists. We’re speaking about unhealthy actors, each within the international locations they’ve come from and since they’ve been right here in the US.”
Dr Phil is embedded with @RealTomHoman for ICE operation in Chicago.
For full reside protection of the operation, obtain the MeritTV app. pic.twitter.com/PKkZRZzqq5
— Dr. Phil (@DrPhil) January 26, 2025
McGraw filmed the raids together with his Benefit Road Media manufacturing firm and aired reside protection on MeritTV.com. He additionally interviewed Tom Homan, President Donald Trump‘s border czar and former ICE performing director.
Since taking workplace on January 20, Trump has made wide-ranging efforts to crack down on immigration, sending U.S. troops to the border and deputizing legislation enforcement brokers with a number of Justice Division businesses to conduct immigration enforcement to assist with the ICE efforts.
In a press release on Sunday, ICE stated that they “together with federal companions, together with the FBI, ATF, DEA, CBP and the U.S. Marshals Service, started conducting enhanced focused operations at present in Chicago to implement U.S. immigration legislation and protect public security and nationwide safety by preserving probably harmful legal aliens out of our communities.”
McGraw, a recognized Republican, spoke at Trump’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally on October 27, 2004. He additionally interviewed Trump through the presidential marketing campaign, the place he agreed with the president’s assertion that the justice system had unfairly focused him.