Dr. Phil McGraw, host of "Dr. Phil Primetime" on Merit TV, speaks with NBC News' Tom Llamas about his ride-along experience with U.S. immigration enforcement officers during an operation in Chicago.

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents led Sai Pavuluri out of his Northwest Side home in handcuffs, he turned to look at the camera crew recording his arrest. He wore shorts and a T-shirt.

TV host Dr. Phil McGraw joined officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border czar Tom Homan for an immigration crackdown in Chicago over the weekend that led to several arrests. McGraw posted video on his X account of an arrest of one man purported to be a “convicted sex offender

The North Texas-based TV host was embedded with U.S. immigration enforcement officers during an operation in Chicago Sunday.

Dr. Phil McGraw said on Sunday that he’s embedding with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials as they conduct what federal officials are calling “targeted operations” to enforce immigration law in Chicago.

Phil McGraw, the television host known as "Dr. Phil," embedded with ICE agents in Chicago to film raids as Trump ramps up deportations.

Dr. Phil joined border czar Tom Homan and a team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as they carried out deportation operations in Chicago.

The TV host known as “Dr. Phil” embedded with U.S. immigration enforcement officers during an operation in Chicago on Sunday, defending President Donald

Dr. Phil and his film crew joined border czar Tom Homan and agents on some immigrations raids and livestreamed them on Merit TV, which he founded when his show "Dr. Phil" was canceled in 2023.

Several feet away, Dr. Phil McGraw — a TV talk show host who, along with his camera crew, was embedded with Homeland Security agents as they launched an immigration blitz in the Chicago area on Sunday — opined on the arrest in keeping with his role of de facto spokesman for the operation.

Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw has responded to Selena Gomez after the actress and singer posted a video in which she sobbed over deportations of undocumented migrants by the U.S.’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.