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Dr Phil McGraw Reveals What He Witnessed on the Ground with Tom Homan During Chicago Immigration Raids
Dr Phil McGraw joined Tom Homan and ICE agents during immigration enforcement operations in Chicago, witnessing firsthand what he describes as targeted operations against violent criminals rather than the indiscriminate sweeps portrayed by media outlets. The TV host and author details his observations of multi-agency coordination focusing on removing convicted criminals from communities, including a disturbing encounter with a convicted child predator who showed no remorse. McGraw explains how sanctuary city policies prevented simple jail transfers, forcing agents to spend hundreds of hours tracking dangerous individuals who could have been deported immediately upon conviction.
Witnessing Targeted Operations, Not Indiscriminate Sweeps
Dr Phil McGraw recently accompanied Tom Homan during immigration enforcement operations in Chicago, an experience that went viral and revealed a stark contrast between media narratives and ground reality. Speaking about what he observed, McGraw explained that the operations were far from the indiscriminate neighborhood sweeps portrayed by legacy media outlets.
"What I saw was a multi-agency operation where people were coming together—DEA, ATF, US Marshals, ICE, FBI—and they were making coordinated efforts after doing a lot of research to take the worst first," McGraw stated. "They were focusing on violent criminals that are in our communities today and taking them out of our communities. I don't know how anybody could object to that."
McGraw directly challenged the media fearmongering suggesting that enforcement agents were targeting anyone based on appearance or sweeping through schools and businesses. He emphasized that operations were carefully planned and executed with specific targets in mind—all of them violent criminals.
Confronting a Convicted Child Predator
One of the most disturbing moments captured during McGraw's time with ICE agents was an encounter with a convicted child sex offender from Thailand who had been living in the community since 2007. The interaction, which went viral, revealed the individual's shocking lack of remorse and belligerent attitude.
When asked about sex crimes involving children, the individual responded dismissively: "Not really." McGraw noted the man's arrogance and complete absence of shame about his criminal history.
"Either you are or you aren't," McGraw commented on the exchange. "The whole idea that he's just floating around out there in the city—it's 6 a.m., I'm pretty sure this guy's not on the way to or from work. What's this guy doing out when it's still dark, floating around the city? I'm guessing up to no good."
McGraw raised a critical point about recidivism among child predators: "One thing we know about child predators is they don't—they're not one and done. They tend to have multiple victims throughout their career. So how many victims did this individual have while he was out there floating around in the community?"
The Sanctuary City Problem
A central theme of McGraw's observations was the obstruction caused by sanctuary city policies. He explained that local law enforcement in Chicago was not cooperating with ICE, even when dangerous criminals were already in their custody.
"They've been bad enough actors that the city, the local law enforcement, saw fit to incarcerate them, arrest them, prosecute them, put them in jail," McGraw explained. "All that has been asked is that—look, raise your hand, let us know when you have these people in custody if they are an illegal immigrant, because we will be there to pick them up in the safety of the jail, or let us know when they're walking out the front door, we will be standing there to wait for them and start prosecuting them for deportation. But they won't do that."
This lack of cooperation forced ICE agents to spend hundreds of man-hours tracking down individuals who could have been transferred with a single agent walking into a jail. Instead, violent criminals were released back into communities, often on bail or probation.
McGraw posed a pointed question: "How simple would this be if they were able to just walk in and transfer him from a jail into ICE custody and out of the country? And how many years has he been out all night long like this walking around committing other crimes?"
Debunking Media Narratives with Tom Homan
In a direct conversation with Tom Homan, McGraw sought to clarify the actual operations versus media portrayals. Homan was explicit about what was not happening:
"Are you going into schools and arresting children at schools?" McGraw asked.
"No," Homan responded.
"Are you going into businesses and sweeping through there and taking anybody with a tan?"
"We go into businesses for a criminal enforcement operation, but again, sweeps don't occur anywhere," Homan clarified. "You're going targeted. If a criminal is working in a business and you have to pick them up there, you're going in for that target."
McGraw emphasized this point: "Forget the false narrative of sweeping neighborhoods looking for people different color than us. Forget that hogwash and look at what we actually do."
The Target List and Operational Briefing
McGraw was permitted to attend a morning operational briefing where he learned the scope of the enforcement efforts. The investigation didn't begin that morning—it involved hundreds of multi-agency man-hours assembling a comprehensive target list.
"I think they had 270 people on the target list that morning, and these were people that they had identified as violent criminals," McGraw revealed. He described seeing a wall covered with white pages listing arrests made in Chicago—murderers, violent aggravated assaults, child rapists, sex crimes against children.
"All of these people were arrested and being taken out of the community. All of these had files, and they had done investigations on these people, gotten their rap sheets, known where they were, had dwellings. Some of them had been under surveillance," McGraw explained.
The list included arms dealers, drug dealers, traffickers, and gang members from MS-13 and Tren de Aragua (TDA). McGraw noted that many of these gang members specifically targeted their own countrymen, extorting and bullying vulnerable immigrant communities before expanding their criminal operations.
The Three-Prong Agenda
Tom Homan outlined the administration's three primary objectives to McGraw:
Seal the border to prevent continued illegal entry
Remove violent criminals from American streets
Find and rescue hundreds of thousands of missing children who have been trafficked into slave labor or sex work
"The focus is worst first right now in the beginning, and they've got plenty of worst to get to for a long time," McGraw noted.
Pride Among Law Enforcement
McGraw observed a noticeable change in morale among the multi-agency agents participating in the operations. "I can't tell you the pride among these multi-agency agents in that room," he said. "They're proud of what President Trump has let them loose to do. They've been social workers for four years. Now they're allowed to do what they signed up to do."
He mentioned that the Secretary of Defense was on the ground in New York conducting similar operations, working extensively with NYPD to take down major gang leaders. "Those operations are continuing," McGraw confirmed.
Assessment of Presidential Leadership
When asked about his analysis of President Trump's pace and approach, McGraw offered a straightforward assessment: "Whether you like President Trump or whether you don't, whether you voted for him or whether you didn't, he told people what he was going to do and he is doing exactly what he said he was going to do. He didn't make a bunch of campaign promises and then sit around and waffle on this, waffle on that. He's doing exactly what he said he was going to do."
McGraw continued: "He said, 'You left the border open, you let all of these people come in, I'm going to start getting them out from day one, minute one,' and that's exactly what has been happening. You may not like that, you may feel like, 'Hey, I don't want to take these people out of the community,' but that's what he said he was going to do, and he's doing it with vigor, he's doing it with zeal."
Merit TV's Ground-Level Reporting
McGraw emphasized the importance of Merit TV's on-the-ground journalism approach. "We're telling the truth, and I think it's driving the left crazy because they're speculating about what's happening. We're on the ground with our cameras just letting people see, make up their own mind about whether what's being said is true or false, and that seems to be driving them crazy."
He explained that people should be thanking ICE agents instead of fear-mongering and making people afraid to go to school or work. McGraw noted that forced community operations sometimes result in questioning others present during arrests, which wouldn't happen if sanctuary cities allowed simple jail transfers of violent criminals.
"It would be much better for those that don't want non-violent taken out if they would let them go into the jail, they would take them out, move on to the next violent criminal and not be looking at others right now," McGraw concluded.
