An illegal immigrant who has been convicted of child sex crimes shocked Dr. Phil when he told him he was ‘not really’ a sex offender as he was taken into custody by immigration enforcement officers.
The TV host, 74, was embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and Donald Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan as they rounded up undocumented migrants in Chicago on Sunday.
Since Trump took office, he quickly moved to ramp up deportations and increase the number of immigration enforcement raids across the nation. ICE made 956 arrests on Sunday, the largest single-day number since Trump’s inauguration.
Dr. Phil, whose real name is Phil McGraw, grilled the detainee as he stood handcuffed in the street, video of the man’s arrest revealed.
The television psychologist asked the man – who has since been identified as Sam Seda from Thailand – where he was born and if he had ever been deported from the US before. Sam confirmed he was not an American citizen, but claimed his mother is.
Homan then revealed that Sam was an ‘illegal alien convicted of sex crimes involving children’, claiming he was just one of many illegal criminals walking the streets of sanctuary cities as local authorities prevent federal agents from doing their jobs.
Dr. Phil addressed Sam again, asking: ‘You’ve been charged with sex crimes with children?’
Sam simply replied: ‘Not really.’
‘Not really?!’ a stunned Dr. Phil stated. ‘And never been deported?’
‘Nope,’ Sam doubled down, leaving Dr. Phil apparently shocked.
Homan then told his agents: ‘Let’s take him in, process him, and lock him up.’
Trump’s immigration crackdown has been met with pushback from other countries, including Colombia which refused to accept military flights carrying deportees.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused Trump of being a ‘white slaveholder’ who is on track to ‘wipe out the human species’ after being humiliated by the US president in the dispute over migrants.
The first migrant arrested in ICE raids across Chicago on Sunday was Seda Sam, from Thailand
Dr. Phil revealed that Sam was a ‘convicted sex offender and internet predator’
Dr. Phil, a clinical psychologist best known for hosting the popular daytime TV talk show Dr. Phil, accompanied Homan and ICE in defending Trump’s deportation effort as the crackdown neared the end of its first week.
McGraw, who spoke at a Trump campaign event in October, said in a post on X on Sunday that ICE aimed to pick 270 ‘high-value targets’, indicating it was a targeted operation, and defended the approach.
‘They’re not sweeping neighborhoods like people are trying to imply,’ he said.
Homan, who revealed Sam’s criminal record to the TV psychologist, used the migrant’s case to highlight the dangers of sanctuary cities, or areas that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
‘Again, the downfall, the problem with a sanctuary city is that people like this are walking the street rather than law enforcement working with federal agents,’ Homan told Dr. Phil. ‘This is what we’re dealing with.’
In a separate clip, Dr. Phil could be seen speaking with Homan about the arrest.
‘He shouldn’t even be here, but he’s doing this,’ Homan added, noting that nobody in the community alerted authorities to say, ‘Hey there’s somebody who doesn’t even have the right to be here that’s preying on our children.’
Homan then noted that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson ‘want to vilify the men of ICE.’
‘ICE saved children today and it makes me angry,’ Homan said, mentioning that the governor claimed federal officials were at a school on Friday, though that was later proven to be false.
Raids were also conducted in Denver, Colorado; Austin, Texas; San Jose, California; Los Angeles, California; San Antonio, Texas; Miami, Florida; Detroit, Michigan, Omaha, Nebraska; Phoenix, Arizona; Atlanta, Georgia and New Jersey, according to NewsNation.
In total, there were 956 migrants apprehended on Sunday alone, following the arrest of nearly 1,300 people on Thursday.
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Border Czar Tom Homan joined ICE agents and officers with the Drug Enforcement Agency to conduct raids in the Windy City
Homan said there were 300 targets the federal government identified in Chicago and its surrounding areas
Among those arrested were sex offenders, convicted murderers and at least five Tren de Aragua members
Homan said Gov Pritzker was ‘scaring children’ by releasing misinformation about ICE targeting schools in Chicago.
‘He’s scaring the neighborhood, putting fear in the community,’ he said.
‘We’re doing the exact opposite, we’re saving children.’
The migrant in the video was reportedly one of 300 targets the federal government identified in Chicago and its surrounding areas, including 150 that had previously been in police custody, Homan told Dr. Phil.
The so-called border czar told NewsNation’s Ali Bradley that multiple ‘public safety threats’ were arrested, including sex offenders, convicted murderers and at least five Tren de Aragua members.
It was the first raid of the new Trump administration in the nation’s third-largest city, where local and state officials have vowed not to work with immigration officials.
As the raids were ongoing Sunday, Chicago Mayor Johnson even assured the public on social media that the local police department were not involved.
Gov. Pritzker also appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and reiterated that local police ‘will not coordinate with federal officials on the arrest of people without a warrant.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knock on the door of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago on Sunday
Homan insisted that the ICE raid was targeted, with agents going after specific targets
‘Our local officials are not just going to say, “Well that person seems like they’re undocumented, so we’re going to hand them over to you and you can figure it out,”‘ he said.
But, he said he agreed that violent criminals who are undocumented should be deported.
‘Now what they’re also doing, though, and it’s quite disturbing is they’re going after people who are law-abiding who are holding down jobs, who have families here, who may have been here for a decade or two decades and they’re often our neighbors and our friends,’ the governor said.
‘And why are we going after them? These are not people who are causing problems in our country?’ he claimed.
But Homan insisted in the video with Dr. Phil that the ICE raid was a targeted raid.
‘We spend a lot of time investigating these people, we know exactly who we’re looking for – so it’s a target enforcement operation, it’s the right thing to do,’ he said, noting that ICE agents are still prohibited from going into people’s houses without a criminal arrest warrant.
The Trump administration has reportedly directed ICE to increase the number of daily arrests
Still, the number of arrests in the first three days of Trump’s presidency represents about 1.1 percent of the total arrests ICE made in fiscal year 2024, when the department was making an average of about 310 arrests each day.
Authorities are now making an average of about 433 arrests each day, but ICE officials have been directed by the Trump administration to increase the number of daily arrests to 1,200 to 1,500, according to the Washington Post.
The newspaper reported that Trump was disappointed with the deportation campaign so far, citing four people with knowledge of the briefings.
He also wanted ICE field offices to make 75 arrests each day, with managers held accountable for missing their quota targets.
Meanwhile, the US and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war on Sunday after the White House said the South American nation had agreed to accept military aircraft carrying deported migrants.
Trump had threatened tariffs and sanctions on Colombia to punish it for earlier refusing to accept military flights carrying deportees as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro immediately backed down on migrant flights, and even offered to use his own plane to fly deported migrants from the US to Colombia.
After the climbdown, Petro said: ‘You don’t like our freedom, okay. I don’t shake hands with white slavers.’
‘Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond… You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance.’
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has accused Donald Trump of being a ‘white slaveholder’ who is on track to ‘wipe out the human species’ in a blistering takedown
President Trump had earlier imposed tariffs of 25 per cent on Colombian imports and an immediate visa revocation for government officials after the nation refused two planeloads of citizens who had been deported from the United States
Not even two hours after Trump announced his retaliatory efforts against Colombia, Petro offered his presidential plane to ‘facilitate the dignified return of the compatriots who were to arrive in the country this morning from deportation flights’
Trump had earlier imposed tariffs of 25 per cent on Colombian imports and an immediate visa revocation for government officials after the nation refused two planeloads of citizens who had been deported from the United States.
That tariff will be raised to 50 per cent in one week, the president warned.
But not even two hours after Trump announced his retaliatory efforts against Colombia, Petro offered his presidential plane to ‘facilitate the dignified return of the compatriots who were to arrive in the country this morning from deportation flights.’
However, now he’s launched a savage scorched earth attack on President Trump, further disintegrating the relationship between the two nations.
Petro warned Trump that his ‘greed’ could be the downfall of mankind in the brutal attack.
In a statement late on Sunday, the White House said Colombia had agreed to accept the migrants after all and Washington would not impose its threatened penalties.
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