Chicago, Illinois - TV personality Dr. Phil bragged on social media that he had "embedded" with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a raid in Chicago.

"Dr Phil is embedded with @RealTomHoman for ICE operation in Chicago," the talk show host, whose real name is Phil McGraw, posted on X, referring to himself in the third person.

"It's a pretty high-risk mission that we're going on," Dr. Phil said in a video clip before he joined Donald Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan.

The television shrink described the operation as a "targeted ICE mission" aimed at "270 high-value targets," whom he described as "known criminals and terrorists."

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"They're [ICE agents] not sweeping neighborhoods as people are trying to imply. I know that because I've been involved in this heading into this," Dr. Phil added.

In a separate clip, Dr. Phil defends ICE's methods and slams sanctuary cities like Chicago for refusing to cooperate with mass deportation schemes.

Since Trump's inauguration, the new administration has sought to rapidly expand immigrant detentions and deportations. The Department of Homeland Security last week gave the green light for immigration officials to raid and arrest people without documentation at churches, hospitals, schools, and other sensitive locations.

ICE on Sunday announced it had made 956 arrests that day as it carried out operations in Chicago and other locations.

Immigrants' rights activists slammed Dr. Phil and the Trump administration for the raids, which they said are aimed to stoke fears among immigrant communities.

"Dr. Phil – a doctor who is not a doctor – working with ICE to fight an 'enemy' that is not an enemy, to eliminate an 'invasion' that is not an invasion. MAGA raids are being unleashed all around the country, and the President wants us all to watch," National Day Laborer Organizing Network Executive Director Pablo Alvarado said in a press release.

"But this is the reality: ICE has only so many agents in Illinois. And Illinois prevents its police from being ICE’s force multipliers. Sanctuary policies like this protected hundreds of thousands of immigrants in Trump’s first term, and they’ll do the same in his second," Alvarado continued.

"Just as day laborers use saws and shovels to create firebreaks ahead of wildfires, we will do the same to fight against the MAGA arson. We immigrants will defend constitutional values shared by all. We will stand up for one another. We will spread solidarity and joy. And we will get back to work."