An illegal immigrant who has been convicted of child sex crimes told Dr. Phil he was 'not really' a sex offender as he was taken into custody by immigration enforcement officers.

The TV host, 74, embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and Donald Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan as they rounded up undocumented migrants in Chicago on Sunday.

Dr. Phil, whose real name is Phil McGraw, grilled the detainee as he stood handcuffed in the street, video of the man's arrest revealed.

The television psychologist asked the man - who has since been identified as Sam Seda from Thailand - where he was born and if he had ever been deported from the US before. Sam confirmed he was not an American citizen, but claimed his mother is.

Homan then revealed that Sam was an 'illegal alien convicted of sex crimes involved children', claiming he was just one of many illegal criminals walking the streets of sanctuary cities as local authorities prevent federal agents from doing their jobs.

Dr. Phil addressed Sam again, asking: 'You've been charged with sex crimes with children?'

Sam simply replied: 'Not really.'

'Not really?!' a stunned Dr. Phil stated. 'And never been deported?'

'Nope,' Sam doubled down, leaving Dr. Phil apparently shocked.

Homan then told his agents: 'Let's take him in, process him, and lock him up.'

Dr. Phil accompanied Homan and ICE in defending Trump's deportation effort as the crackdown neared the end of its first week. 

McGraw, who spoke at a Trump campaign event in October, said in a post on X on Sunday that ICE aimed to pick 270 'high-value targets', indicating it was a targeted operation, and defended the approach. 

'They're not sweeping neighborhoods like people are trying to imply,' he said.

Homan, who revealed Sam's criminal record to the TV psychologist, used the migrant's case to highlight the dangers of sanctuary cities, or areas that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

'Again, the downfall, the problem with a sanctuary city is that people like this are walking the street rather than law enforcement working with federal agents,' Homan told Dr. Phil. 'This is what we're dealing with.' 

In a separate clip, Dr. Phil could be seen speaking with Homan about the arrest.

'He shouldn't even be here, but he's doing this,' Homan added, noting that nobody in the community alerted authorities to say, 'Hey there's somebody who doesn't even have the right to be here that's preying on our children.'

Homan then noted that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson 'want to vilify the men of ICE.'

'ICE saved children today and it makes me angry,' Homan said, mentioning that the governor claimed federal officials were at a school on Friday, though that was later proven to be false.

Raids were also conducted in Denver, Colorado; Austin, Texas; San Jose, California; Los Angeles, California; San Antonio, Texas; Miami, Florida; Detroit, Michigan, Omaha, Nebraska; Phoenix, Arizona; Atlanta, Georgia and New Jersey, according to NewsNation.

In total, there were 956 migrants apprehended on Sunday alone, following the arrest of nearly 1,300 people on Thursday.

Homan said Gov Pritzker was 'scaring children' by releasing misinformation about ICE targeting schools in Chicago. 

'He's scaring the neighborhood, putting fear in the community,' he said.

'We're doing the exact opposite, we're saving children.' 

The migrant in the video was reportedly one of 300 targets the federal government identified in Chicago and its surrounding areas, including 150 that had previously been in police custody, Homan told Dr. Phil.

The so-called border czar told NewsNation's Ali Bradley that multiple 'public safety threats' were arrested, including sex offenders, convicted murderers and at least five Tren de Aragua members.

It was the first raid of the new Trump administration in the nation's third-largest city, where local and state officials have vowed not to work with immigration officials.

As the raids were ongoing Sunday, Chicago Mayor Johnson even assured the public on social media that the local police department were not involved.

Gov. Pritzker also appeared on CNN's State of the Union and reiterated that local police 'will not coordinate with federal officials on the arrest of people without a warrant.

'Our local officials are not just going to say, "Well that person seems like they're undocumented, so we're going to hand them over to you and you can figure it out,"' he said.

But, he said he agreed that violent criminals who are undocumented should be deported.

'Now what they're also doing, though, and it's quite disturbing is they're going after people who are law-abiding who are holding down jobs, who have families here, who may have been here for a decade or two decades and they're often our neighbors and our friends,' the governor said.

'And why are we going after them? These are not people who are causing problems in our country?' he claimed. 

But Homan insisted in the video with Dr. Phil that the ICE raid was a targeted raid.

'We spend a lot of time investigating these people, we know exactly who we're looking for - so it's a target enforcement operation, it's the right thing to do,' he said, noting that ICE agents are still prohibited from going into people's houses without a criminal arrest warrant.

Still, the number of arrests in the first three days of Trump's presidency represents about 1.1 percent of the total arrests ICE made in fiscal year 2024, when the department was making an average of about 310 arrests each day.

Authorities are now making an average of about 433 arrests each day, but ICE officials have been directed by the Trump administration to increase the number of daily arrests to 1,200 to 1,500, according to the Washington Post.

The newspaper reported that Trump was disappointed with the deportation campaign so far, citing four people with knowledge of the briefings.

He also wanted ICE field offices to make 75 arrests each day, with managers held accountable for missing their quota targets.