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On Friday’s Real Time, Maher went after Dr. Phil with the usual script. He painted ICE raids as heartless acts, implying they run counter to Dr. Phil’s career of helping families.
“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,” Maher said. “And now you’re going on raids with people who are literally separating families. Explain that to me.”
Maher clearly expected his guest to squirm, apologize, and change the subject. That didn’t happen.
“Well, now that’s bulls***,” Dr. Phil replied instantly, making it clear he wasn’t about to let the host twist the facts.
When Maher tried to double down — asking if ICE agents weren’t separating families — Dr. Phil turned the tables.
“If you arrest somebody that’s a citizen that has committed a crime or is DUI with a child in the backseat, do you think they don’t separate that family right then, right there? Of course they do.”
Dr. Phil also explained a point that the media rarely touches: why ICE agents often cover their faces during operations.
“Let me tell you why they have their mask on,” he said. “Because we actually have legislators who passed laws about immigration and funded those laws to be executed. They actually pay these agents to go out and do this. And now they’re doxing them. They’re putting their names, their pictures, their addresses of their families on the internet.”
He added that violence against ICE agents has skyrocketed: “The negative actions against ICE agents are up 1,000% in the last several months. 130% violence against them.”
Dr. Phil wasn’t done dismantling Maher’s argument. He revealed exactly who these operations focus on.
“The ICE I’ve been on, I’ve looked at these files,” Dr. Phil stated. “They’ve got 12 – No, no. Wait a minute. No, wait a minute. The ICEs I’ve been on, I’ve seen the files. They’ve got a rap sheet 12, 14 different cases long of child predators that they’re taking off the street. These are the worst first that they’re taking off the streets.”
Then came the question that stopped Maher cold: “Who would want them back in their communities?”
Maher had no choice but to answer honestly: “No one. Nobody wants that.”
Fellow guest Stephen A. Smith jumped in, saying, “Dr. Phil, that was beautiful.”
Dr. Phil summed up the point plainly: “These are violent criminals.”
When Maher tried to pivot to the “good people just looking for work” story, Dr. Phil had already made it clear — these raids aren’t targeting the guy standing outside Home Depot. They’re removing dangerous criminals with extensive records from our streets.
The clash on Real Time showed the stark difference between talking points and facts. While Maher sat in a studio pushing an agenda, Dr. Phil went into the field to see the truth with his own eyes — and brought that truth back to millions of viewers.
His message to conservatives was loud and clear: when the left tries to shame you for backing law enforcement, don’t flinch. Hit them with facts, refuse to apologize, and force them to defend the indefensible — wanting violent criminals back in our neighborhoods.
