ICE In The Windy City: Dr. Phil Exclusive
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Phil takes viewers behind the scenes of ICE arrest in Chicago. Tom Homan, the former ICE Director and now President Trump's 'border czar' is all about transparency and the letter of the law. When they decided to undertake the first large multi-agency operation to identify, target, and arrest dangerous illegal aliens in Chicago, Homan agreed to allow Merit TV and Dr. Phil to embed with agents and document factually what was going on. Specifically, how targets were identified, prioritized, approached and taken into custody. Dr. Phil filmed a variety of arrests including a convicted sex offender and internet predator from Thailand who was residing illegally in Chicago. Dr. Phil discovers they are not sweeping through neighborhoods or raiding schools. These brave men and women are laser-focused on taking hardened criminal illegal aliens who've been hiding in plain sight. Thank you to our sponsors: Acorns: Head to https://acorns.com/DRPHIL or download the Acorns app to get started.
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| 0:00.0 | If those 270 people are gone from these communities, how much safer these communities are those people are gone? |
| 0:08.0 | We're focused on criminals, public safety threats, national security threat first. |
| 0:12.0 | And that just makes sense. They're the biggest dangers to the Dr. Phil podcast. Tom Holman, the former ICE director, and now President Trump's borders are, is all about transparency and the letter of the law. |
| 0:39.7 | When they decided to undertake the first large multi-agency operation to identify, target, and arrest |
| 0:47.6 | dangerous illegal aliens in Chicago, he agreed to allow Merit TV to embed with agents and document factually what was going |
| 0:57.7 | on, specifically how targets were identified, prioritized, approached, and taken into custody. |
| 1:05.8 | Well, without hesitation, I got on a plane and flew to Chicago. What I witnessed was eye-opening. Here's what |
| 1:15.1 | happened. Well, we just arrived in Chicago, and I'm getting ready to meet with Tom Holman, |
| 1:20.4 | and we're going to brief what's happening tomorrow, what we're going to do, how we're going to |
| 1:25.1 | do it, go over all the security protocol, because it's a pretty high-risk mission what we're going to do, how we're going to do it, go over all the security protocol |
| 1:27.8 | because it's a pretty high risk mission that we're going on. |
| 1:34.0 | This truly is a targeted ICE mission because they're not sweeping neighborhoods like people |
| 1:41.9 | are trying to imply. |
| 1:43.6 | I know that because I've been involved in this heading into this. |
| 1:47.9 | They've identified 270 high-value targets. |
| 1:52.9 | And what I mean by that is these are known criminals and terrorists. |
| 1:57.8 | We're talking about murderers, child traffickers, child rapist. We're talking about |
| 2:05.4 | bad actors, both in the countries they've come from and since they've been here in the United |
| 2:10.9 | States. Some of these people have 12, 15 arrest, indictments, some convictions in their home countries and here, but yet they're on the |
| 2:20.7 | streets. And that's who ICE is targeting to bring out of these communities. So we're going |
| 2:27.5 | after specific targets, not just sweeping neighborhoods. One thing I've learned about Tom |
| 2:32.5 | Holman since I've come to know him, he is very |
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