During an immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago on Sunday, a person who appeared in federal custody, who appeared in federal custody, stopped talking briefly when he asked the man recognizing the man with the Texas accent.
“You are Dr. Phil,” the man told television personality Phil McGrag, who, while standing with federal agents, surrounded the man with questions about his citizenship and alleged crimes.
The scene was played not only in Chicago, but also on the Internet, as Macgra and camera were embedded with President Donald Trump’s “Border Caesar” Tom Homan and others from various federal agencies, because their merit TV media platforms were embedded. He had initiated volatile immigration action for a long time in and around the city in the last weekend.
Federal immigration and customs enforcement officers did not respond to questions about the presence of Macgra during enforcement operations on Monday or the nuances of the conversation with the suspects were broadcast on their platform and social media accounts. But in an interview with the tribune, Macgra, who spoke at the Trump rally just before last year’s election, said he was in Chicago that “a very targeted, surgical operation” to provide “transparency” for “transparency” For those with criminal records for the purpose of people. Country without legal authority.
Macgra said, “Transparency is going to be important for people what is going on and what is not happening.” “I have read a lot of things about making the neighborhood broaden and businesses and even schools and such things. This is just untrue. He is not running. ,
For many others, however, providing a large extent to a well-known television personality during the high-day law enforcement encounters raises questions about the rationale of operation. It underlines to the extent that Trump – who saw his turn as a reality TV star as a political career, is in a political career run by harsh rhetoric on illegal immigration – to express his message The spectacle and appearance for it depends on.
The possibility of further staining the lines between politics and popular media is an identity of another Trump administration, as former Fox news personality such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Scene Dafi, a former Visconsin Congress and Star’s stars clear Is. “The Real World” of MTV tapped to lead the Transport Department.
For a long time, Chicago’s Immigration Attorney Kevin Rica said he was surprised to see McGrag tagging with federal officials during Sunday’s enforcement operations.
“These are usually law enforcement-cavalry operations,” Rika said, who has practiced immigration law for 20 years. “Generally, they want to restrict that access because they say that this law enforcement is sensitive and it can reveal their methods of operation or how they operate themselves. It will be insecure for those people. Which they are trying to take into custody.
In fact, a former federal law enforcement officer who was located in Chicago said that he would not have allowed a TV personality to roll the cameras during an operation.
“We usually try to stay out of the media’s attention … for hosting the reasons,” the former official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he spoke because he has his current employer to talk to the press Were not authorized by
Those reasons include both security concerns and “issue of insult”.
“We always took great pain to ensure that they were humiliated in the process of arrest, as a public officer, a law enforcement officer, a drug dealer or someone else, as it hosts other complaints. The former official said that it could emerge in the scene or under the line.
Macgra, who had already interviewed Homan, said that the authorities took great care to ensure security on Sunday.
“Their number 1 was the safety of all the people involved in priority, including the goals, which they were arrest, and they were going in great length to ensure that they were about this operation Went from which provided the largest degree and the possibility of safety. Those who were being arrested and at the same time the agents were also being arrested, who were in custody.
Nevertheless, videos of events, especially the McGrath, were real – and suspicious.
During the exchange with a person recognizing Macgra as “Dr.,” TV personality asked the man’s questions even after mentioning a lawyer to talk to a lawyer. The clip posted in Macgra’s account on X, the social media platform was earlier called Twitter, showing that the person was being questioned that he was standing behind him next to a law enforcement officer.
Standing in favor of Macgra, Homan said: “This is an example of sanctuary cities, isn’t it?” Niti does not cooperate with the city agencies and local law enforcement federal exile, referring to Chicago and many other big cities.
“We have been convicted an illegal foreign guilty for sexual offenses related to children, and he is running on the streets of Chicago,” Homan continued.
“Have you been accused of sexual offenses with children?” Macgra said.
“Not really,” the man said, shortly before, Homan is seen on the video to “take her in, process it, and close it.”
The former federal officer said that as soon as the question was mentioned to talk to a lawyer, he should have stopped.
The former official said, “You have to shut down and deprive them and they will have to get your lawyer.”
While he is “not a lawyer,” McGrag said to the Tribune, “I don’t think it will expand to me, but I think one can definitely ask the lawyers if it is true.”
A representative of Illinois’s American Civil Liberty Union also raised questions about the exchange.
Illinois spokesman Ed Yohanka wrote, “It is harassing that a high-level government officials were disqualified as a arrest as a hand-chosen media outlet and attempted to get admission from a suspect, even That asked to talk to his lawyer, “An e -mail. “If the administration feels that such a stunt will provide credibility for its operation, then it is wrong.”
Immigration enforcement, especially the exile of those who have committed major crimes, is a serious business and should be treated in this way, said David Axlod, advisor to former President Barack Obama.
Obama deported more people during his first term, Trump did during him, Axlerod said, but “did not bring camera and film crew with them to mark the opportunity.”
“Donald Trump is the greatest market in history, branders and self-uomoters. “I will not take him away from him,” said Axl Road. “But on the ice raid, Dr. Phil’s spectacle is actually … is like a cheap reality show and is separated from gravity and it should be severity of what should be.”
“Tamasha” was also the word that came to mind for Illinois Communications Professor Stewart Coles University.
“It is no secret that Trump individually ratings, with popularity, with large -scale media,” said, “the research whose research includes the political effects of entertainment media.
On the hands of Macgra and cameras, the highly promoted enforcement effort of administration “turns into entertainment, possibly, their supporters, that they see that they are doing something about immigration.”
And when McGrag told the Tribune that his goal was to document “factual” and “real”, there is an array of unanswered questions in today’s fragmented media scenario, “What kind of journalism morality is being followed,” Coals said.
Northwestern University Communications Professor Heather Hendrash said that McGrath’s participation, “disturbed” and “unusual”, “also pointing to generalization.”
“It is very strange that hosting a talk show with immigration officers, gathering people for potential exile,” said Handershot. “It is completely unfair. It has no meaning, but it pointed to ways that I fear that the Trump administration and its extremism and ruling tilt are normalizing around this time. ,
Former Deputy Chief and Current Chief Program Officer Nubia Wilman at Latinos Progressando said that “this second round, the federal administration will continue to seek ways to protest and intimidate the Chicagockers in an attempt to deepen the partition. Adding a TV personality is probably the first of many suspicious decisions that we will see because they try to provoke immigrants. ”
Elded. Raymond Lopez, 15th, an outspoken critic of the city’s sanctuary, appeared in an interview segment on McGrag’s merit TV platform on Sunday.
He has not met Macgra, but said “it is very important to show who these goals are and to show why he is being chased by the federal government.”
Lopez said that he feels that local media should have been invited to see the efforts of exile.
Lopez said, “It is important for all of us to share more information for all of us, otherwise you have a rumor, which is spreading fear and hysteria,” Lopez said, which without other crimes of immigrants Does not support exile. ,
For some, however, the spotlight created more fear on Sunday’s functions.
A woman from Venezuela who said that her name is Izari, she said that she forced her to go to work on Monday, even if Sandesh from Homan and McGrag has scared her. She is a single mother who lives south.
“But what if something happens to me?” He asked. “Then my son will have no one.”
Isamari asked not to include his last name due to the threat of exile. She said that she usually takes the bus to the city, where she cleanses the hotel, she said.
“I have applied for asylum. And even though I have no legal papers yet, I keep my court documents with all the time, when they stop me, ”he said.
She said that she looks at the news and he heard that she needs to get a good lawyer. But because he does not always have a stable work, he said that he does not have money to hire a lawyer.
“I really don’t know what to do,” he said. “I don’t like to hear what they are doing for people.”