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What the Hell Was Dr. Phil Doing at the ICE Raids in Los Angeles?

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09.06.2025

Donald Trump’s ally Dr. Phil McGraw is back to making anti-immigrant propaganda for Donald Trump’s administration.

The conservative television personality commonly known as “Dr. Phil” was embedded among Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with a camera crew during the raids in Los Angeles last week that sparked multiple days of protests, CNN reported Monday.

A spokesperson for Dr. Phil’s right-wing channel, Merit TV, confirmed to CNN that the footage from the raid will be used as part of a special report on Dr. Phil Primetime to provide viewers with a “firsthand look at the targeted operations” of Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The report will also include an interview with Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan, who has ramped up his rhetoric during the administration’s escalating immigration efforts in California—even threatening to have California Governor Gavin Newsom arrested. In an interview Monday, Homan readily admitted that the raids are rounding up individuals with no criminal record.

Dr. Phil’s action-packed programming will undoubtedly be used to support administration officials’ outlandish claims that the protests are a form of “invasion” or “insurrection,” allowing them to continually escalate their law enforcement actions. Trump has already bypassed Newsom’s authority to call in the National Guard, and law enforcement has deployed flash grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets against protesters and journalists alike.

In January, Dr. Phil accompanied ICE agents on raids around Chicago, an early action of the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants. The longtime Trump ally has proven to be an outspoken advocate for the president’s immigration agenda.

Border czar Tom Homan once again admitted with complete confidence that many of the people arrested in recent ICE raids have zero criminal history.

“[Does] everyone that has been arrested by ICE agents have a criminal record like you’ve described?” an MSNBC host asked Homan on Monday.

“Absolutely not,” Homan replied.

Homan and ICE continue to operate their draconian deportation campaign with impunity, rounding up anyone they can find to get their arrest and deportation numbers up. As of June 1, there were 7,781 people in ICE detention with no criminal record.

The border czar continued, noting that sanctuary cities make it harder for ICE to kidnap innocent people with no criminal records from their homes without trial.

“I said from day one, January 20th: We will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats. However, we will enforce law. We’re gonna enforce immigration law … especially in sanctuary cities, where we can’t get the bad guy in the safety and security of a jail,” he said. “They’re released into the street, well we gotta go to the street and find them. And when we find them, many times they’re with others.” Los Angeles is a sanctuary city.

Homan is going after immigrants who are playing by the “rules” too, as many of the people detained were in the middle of obtaining legal residence here.

“ICE’s new operation involves RE-arresting people who are currently undergoing the court process in full compliance with the law, with the goal of stripping them of a right to a court hearing and subjecting them to “expedited removal” instead,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council wrote on X in response. “This data proves that ICE and DHS are in fact NOT focusing on people with criminal records. It’s the opposite; they’re deprioritizing people with records.”

It’s clear that the Trump administration is applying a “guilty by association” narrative to justify this process.

“Others that are in the United States illegally may not be a criminal target, but guess what?” Homan said. “If ICE is there and arrests that bad guy and other aliens are there, we’re going to arrest them. That’s what sanctuary cities get.”

Just days after publicly flaming Donald Trump for allegedly being named in the Epstein Files, tech billionaire Elon Musk is cozying back up to the president.

The dynamic DOGE duo’s relationship burst into flames Thursday as Musk attempted to kill the president’s “big, beautiful bill.” In back-to-back posts, Trump and his ex-financier unloaded on one another on each of their respective social media platforms, accusing each other of being unlikable, untrustworthy, and even unreal.

But by Sunday, Musk was back to elevating Trump’s opinion, retweeting one of the president’s diatribes on the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles.

Law enforcement officers have gone toe-to-toe with protesters in Los Angeles for the last three days as locals take a visible stand against the........

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