The video published by the former Talk-Show host host, Phil McGraw, showed it in a walk with immigration agents in Chicago on Sunday when the authorities increased compliance operations of the United States.
McGraw, a former psychologist who jumped to fame next to Oprah Winfrey and received “Dr. Phil” for more than two decades, said he had “embedded” with the application of immigration and customs to show what he described as the specific efforts of The agency to apprehend “known criminals and terrorists.”
In statements to McGraw in a segment transmitted on the network that the former show-show host he founded a year ago, Merit Street Media, the Trump administration, La Frontera, the Tur Thomas Homan, told the spectators to “forget the false narrative “that the immigration authorities are carrying out sweeps from the neighborhood that aimed” people who are different from us. “
“Look what we really do,” he said.
Compliance actions occur after President Donald Trump promised to carry out what he described as the largest mass deportation plan in the history of the United States, and as immigration defenders war due process during meetings with the authorities, regardless of their immigration status.
On Monday, a group of Congregations Quaqueras demanded the Department of National Security for the reversal of a policy of decades last week that prevented immigration agents from making raids in “sensitive locations”, including houses of worship and schools, without prior approval .
ICE agents took almost 1,200 people in custody on Sunday, the agency said, marking the largest number of arrests made in a single day since Trump assumed the position. Almost half of the detainees have no criminal record, according to a senior Trump administration official.
In a video posted in McGraw’s profile X, you can see the former presenter of the interview program questioning a man who seems to be handcuffed and standing on a street next to Homin.
At one time, you can listen to the man asking for a lawyer. At another time, when McGraw asks the man if he had been deported previously, the man asks: “Are you Dr. Phil?”
“How do you know me?” McGraw responds.
“I’ve seen you in ‘Dr. Phil,” he said.
In the video, Homan describes the man as undocumented and says that he has been convicted of sexual crimes with children. When McGraw asks the man if he committed the alleged crimes, the man says: “Not really.”
An ICE spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
McGraw, who finished his day show in 2023, spoke at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in October and called the then candidate “hard as an old army boot.” In a later interview, McGraw said that appearance was not support.
For decades before entering the political arena, Trump observed, and accelerated, the rise of the reality shows.
Persuring the celebrity, Trump became a constant presence in the sensationalist newspapers of New York, appeared as a guest with the greatest interviewers of the last 40 years, from Phil Donahue to Howard Stern, and finally launched “The Amprentice.” In that program, Trump judged the candidates for a job, telling the losers “You are fired!”
Maury Povich, presenter of the “Trash TV” “Maury” interview program, once said Trump would call him to offer suggestions for the program. The late Jerry Springer regretted in 2019 that Trump “took my show and brought it to the White House.”
During his 2024 campaign, Trump effectively used modern formats, including YouTube podcasts and programs, which try to reduce the distance between the public and the hosts and guests.
