Dr. Phil was left stunned on Sunday as he joined Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan to detain an illegal who eventually admitted to being a sex offender.
The 74-year-old television host grilled the sex criminal shackled in handcuffs right on the street as agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement rounded up undocumented migrants in Chicago.
The man apprehended was a ‘convicted sex offender and internet predator from Thailand,’ Dr. Phil announced on social media. He included a video of the man’s arrest, in which the migrant identifies himself as Seda Sam.
Sam claimed he had never been deported before, and stated that his mother is a citizen, when the television psychologist revealed he had been convicted of sex crimes involving children.
But when Dr. Phil 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’
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.
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’
In total, there were 956 migrants apprehended on Sunday alone, following the arrest of nearly 1,300 people on Thursday.
Dr. Phil seemed to have been left shocked by what he had witnessed.
‘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 agreed, noting 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.
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
‘He’s scaring children,’ Homan said. ‘He’s scaring the neighborhood, putting fear in the community.
‘We’re doing the exact opposite, we’re saving children.’
Sam 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.
