Dr. Phil was left stunned on Sunday as he joined Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan to detain an illegal who said he was ‘not really’ a sex offender.
The elderly TV host interrogated the accused sex offender, who was in handcuffs, on the streets of Chicago while Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were capturing undocumented immigrants.
Dr. Phil asserted on social platforms that the individual apprehended was a ‘convicted sex offender and internet predator from Thailand,’ and shared a video of the arrest.
The arrested individual countered that he had not been deported previously and mentioned that his mother is a citizen when the TV psychologist claimed he had been found guilty of offenses related to minors.
But when Dr. Phil again asked Sam whether he had been charged for sex crimes, he simply replied: ‘Not really.’
‘Not really?!’ a stunned Dr. Phil replied.
‘I’m not a sinner, I’m gonna talk to my lawyer,’ the migrant said in the video.
Homan then told his agents: ‘Let’s take him in, process him, and lock him up.’
The defiant border czar casted that the unidentified migrant was just one of many illegal criminals walking the streets of sanctuary cities as local authorities prevent the federal government from
‘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 said.
‘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.
Homan said about Gov Pritzker was ‘scaring children’ by released 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.
‘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.
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.
