Dr. Phil McGraw embedded with US immigration officers during deportation raids Sunday — and ended up quizzing a convicted child-sex-offender who smugly tried to brush off being in the country illegally.

The TV host joined border czar Tom Homan and an ICE crew in Chicago when they took into custody Sam Seda, a Thai national who openly admitted he is not a citizen.

“This is an example of sanctuary cities,” Homan told the TV psychologist as authorities quizzed the cuffed migrant, one of 270 “high-value targets” they were seeking in the Windy City under President Trump’s new deportation policy.

“We’ve got an illegal alien convicted of sex crimes involving children, and he’s walking the streets of Chicago,” Homan said.

Seda told McGraw he recognized him from TV — but was dismissive of nearly everything else he was asked about his background.

Asked if he had ever been deported before, Seda replied, “No” — before admitting he had “been in the system before.”

When McGraw asked if he was a citizen, the Thai national replied, “My mom’s a citizen.”

Questioned about his previous convictions, Seda said he wanted to talk to a lawyer.

Then when McGraw bluntly asked if he’d “been charged with [a] sex crime involving children” — as Homan said — the suspect replied smugly, “Not really.”

“‘Not really?!’ ” a dumbfounded McGraw said of the bizarre reply.

Homan said, “Again, the downfall, the problem with a sanctuary city is that people like this [are] walking the street rather than having law enforcement working with federal agents.

“This is what we’re dealing with.”

Homan then ordered the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent handling the illegal immigrant to “take him in, process him and lock him up.”

In an earlier post before going out with ICE, McGraw revealed that agents aimed to pick up 270 “high-value targets” around the Windy City.

“It’s a pretty high-risk mission we’re going on. This truly is a targeted ICE mission, because they’re not sweeping neighborhoods like people are trying to imply,” the TV host said.

“These are known criminals and terrorists. We’re talking about murderers, child traffickers, child rapists. We’re talking about bad actors, both in the countries they’ve come from and since they’ve been here in the United States.”

ICE said it partnered with the Department of Justice to “enhance targeted operations” in Chicago to preserve public safety but did not provide further details.

In another clip, McGraw spoke with Homan about arresting Seda.

“He shouldn’t even be here, but he’s doing this,” Homan explained — then slammed people in the community for not alerting the authorities about an illegal immigrant “that’s preying on our children.”

Homan told McGraw that Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Dem Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson “want to vilify the men of ICE.”

McGraw asked Trump’s border czar if his agents are “going into schools and arresting children at schools?” and, “Is anything like that happening?”

“No, sir,” Homan answered sternly.

Chicago Public Schools said it erred Friday by claiming ICE agents entered an elementary school on the city’s Southwest Side.

The authorities who went into Hamline Elementary School were with the US Secret Service and investigating a threat against one of its “protectees about the recent TikTok ban,” NBC News reported.

Chicago is one of the sanctuary cities around the US which have been put on notice that the lax immigration enforcement days of the Biden administration are over.

Federal immigration agents have been rounding up hundreds of migrant criminals ​across the country daily since Trump took office.

This weekend saw a nationwide surge of immigration enforcement actions, ​including some leading to the arrest of dozens of Tren de Aragua gang members in Colorado at a “makeshift nightclub” near Aurora, where the bloodthirsty gang has set up shop in several apartment complexes it has commandeered. 

The agency also arrested numerous illegal immigrants convicted of crimes ranging from murder to child molestation, rounding them up in Seattle, Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles and New Orleans.

Authorities currently average approximately 433 arrests each day, the Washington Post reported​ — but ICE made 956 arrests nationwide Sunday alone, the agency said on X.

Despite these figures, the nascent Trump administration has some ground to make up before eclipsing deportation figures under his predecessor.

The Biden administration, by comparison, deported ​about 743 illegal immigrants per day, CBS News report​ed. 

With Trump now in charge, ICE has been instructed to increase the number of daily arrests significantly​, to between 1,200 and 1,500.

Homan has vowed the deportations will continue to accelerate as agencies round up more illegal immigrants, culminat​ing in millions of migrants ​eventually being expelled from the US in accordance with a 2024 campaign promise by President Trump.

He declared Sunday that everyone currently in the country illegally is “on the table” for deportation and has heaped praise on the Trump administration for sending a “strong signal to the world: Our border is closed.”

With Post wires