Bill Maher attempted to call out Dr. Phil about his participation in the Trump administration’s ICE raids in Chicago and Los Angeles, only to have the entire argument thrown back in his face.
The "Real Time" host tried tugging on the heart strings, saying Dr. Phil has been synonymous with reuniting families, but his participation in the repatriation operations was the opposite approach.
"Why are you going on these ICE raids?" Maher challenged his guest. "I don’t understand that."
"You’re a guy who we know for so many years who has been working to put families together. To bring families who are apart and heal them," the comedian continued. "And now you’re going on raids with people who are literally separating families."
He almost certainly didn't see the response coming.
"Well, now that’s bulls***," Dr. Phil shot back, before pointing out that criminals, when confronted with their crimes or having to pay for their transgressions, are by nature separated from their families.
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"Look, if you arrest somebody that’s a citizen, that has committed a crime or is DUI’d with a child in the backseat, do you think they don’t separate that family right then, right there?" Dr. Phil inquired. "Of course they do!"
"But that’s not what’s going on," Maher complained, a complete disconnect from reality.
When a bank robber gets arrested, nobody says their children were stolen away from them. When a drunk driver is locked up for manslaughter, there are no protests and whining about his or her children not seeing their parent for a while.
No, they simply look at the parent and identify them as a criminal who has to do the time for committing the crime. It's their fault the family is being separated. That's a bad parent.
Oh, and where was Maher when family separations were off the charts during the previous administration? Like most good Hollywood rubes, he was silent.
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report from March 2025 stated that over 233,000 unaccompanied children were released from federal custody into the U.S. and subsequently could not be tracked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
"The Biden Border Crisis created a humanitarian crisis that left over 233,000 unaccompanied alien children (UACs) without proper legal oversight and vulnerable to exploitation," the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform reported.
"According to the Inspector General’s report, 31,000 children were released to sponsor addresses that were blank, undeliverable, or incomplete, while more than 43,000 failed to appear for court hearings and are now effectively missing from federal monitoring."
Like a good little pet of the Democrat party, Maher was silent. But now he wants to puff up his chest and call out Dr. Phil for watching the Trump administration get the humanitarian crisis under control? P'shaw, Billy. The lies don't work anymore.
Dr. Phil and Maher continued to spar a bit in the interview, with the comedian, again like a good little leftist, complaining about ICE agents wearing masks.
Once more, the one-time friend of Oprah put him squarely in his place.
"[Legislators are] putting their [ICE agents] names, their pictures, their addresses of their families on the internet, they’re putting them on telephone poles," Dr. Phil countered. "So, of course, they’re wearing masks so they don’t get outed, so people can do violence against their families."
Indeed, DHS reported on an 830 percent increase in assaults against ICE agents between January and July 2025 compared to the same period in 2024.
Maher may need to think twice about having Phil McGraw back on his show anytime soon.
Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.
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