Bill Maher thought he had the perfect “gotcha” moment lined up for Dr. Phil—only to get blindsided with a dose of common sense that completely unraveled his argument.
The HBO host tried to shame Dr. Phil for joining Trump-era ICE raids in Chicago and Los Angeles, leaning into the emotional talking points the Left has long used on border enforcement.
“Why are you going on these ICE raids?” Maher challenged. “I don’t understand that.”
He pressed harder, trying to paint Dr. Phil as a hypocrite. “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 continued. “And now you’re going on raids with people who are literally separating families.”
Dr. Phil’s answer cut through the theatrics.
“Well, now that’s bulls***,” he shot back, pointing out the obvious truth that criminals—citizens or not—are separated from their families every day when they break the law.
“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? Of course they do!” he said.
Maher doubled down, insisting “that’s not what’s going on.” But the reality is exactly that: illegal entry is a crime. And when crimes are committed, families are separated because of the criminal’s own actions—not because law enforcement is “stealing children.”
The selective outrage is striking. When family separations skyrocketed under the previous administration, Maher was silent. No heartfelt monologues. No indignation.
Meanwhile, the humanitarian disaster at the southern border under Biden is staggering. A March 2025 DHS Office of Inspector General report revealed that over 233,000 unaccompanied children were released into the U.S. and subsequently fell off the federal radar.
“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.
The report is chilling:
- 31,000 children were released to sponsor addresses that were blank, undeliverable, or incomplete.
- More than 43,000 children never showed up for their court hearings and are now effectively missing from federal monitoring.
Yet Maher, like many in Hollywood, had nothing to say when that crisis unfolded. But when Dr. Phil participates in operations to get things under control, suddenly it’s a scandal?
The sparring didn’t end there. Maher took issue with ICE agents wearing masks during operations, trying to frame it as intimidation. Dr. Phil quickly set him straight:
“[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 explained. “So, of course, they’re wearing masks so they don’t get outed, so people can do violence against their families.”
That’s not paranoia—it’s backed by DHS data. Assaults against ICE agents skyrocketed 830% between January and July 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. When law enforcement is being targeted simply for doing their jobs, masks aren’t a statement—they’re basic protection.
Maher might have thought he was staging a moment of moral high ground. Instead, Dr. Phil reminded viewers that enforcing the law isn’t cruelty—it’s justice. And protecting American communities requires the courage to act, not the cowardice to ignore the problem.
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