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Dr. Phil McGraw shared a video of himself addressing a convicted child sex offender during a U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement raid of illegal migrants in Chicago.
McGraw was alongside border czar Tom Homan during the arrest of Sam Seda, a Thai native who admitted on camera that he was not a U.S. citizen.
“This is an example of sanctuary cities, right,” Homan told McGraw while they addressed Seda, one of the 270 "high-value" targets ICE was seeking in Chicago under President Donald Trump's new policy. “We’ve got an illegal alien convicted of sex crimes involving children and he’s walking the streets of Chicago.”
Seda said he recognized McGraw from his television show but was dismissive of questions about his own background, claiming he'd never previously been deported and that his mother was a U.S. citizen. McGraw then asked Seda if he'd "been charged with sex crime involving children," to which he replied, "Not really."
"Not really?" McGraw responded.
“Again, the downfall, the problem with a sanctuary city is that people like this [are] walking the street rather than having law enforcement working with federal agents. This is what we’re dealing with," Homan said before ordering the ICE agent handling Seda to "take him in, process him, and lock him up" as the video concluded.
McGraw shared an earlier clip in which he revealed that ICE agents were targeting 27 "high-value targets" around Chicago.
“It’s a pretty high-risk mission we’re going on. This truly is a targeted ICE mission, because they’re not sweeping neighborhoods like people are trying to imply,” he said. “These are known criminals and terrorists. We’re talking about murderers, child traffickers, child rapists. We’re talking about bad actors, both in the countries they’ve come from, and since they’ve been here in the United States.”
A total 538 illegal migrants were arrested by ICE during President Donald Trump's first four days in office, a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to the New York Post last week.