60 Minutes Cut One Admission About Deportations and DHS’s Top Lawyer Released the Tape
CBS quietly swapped out Kamala Harris's rambling answer on 60 Minutes to make her sound sharp.
The same show has now aired a tearjerker about deportations, and the Trump official in the hot seat kept a tape running.
What that tape caught the reporter admitting never made it onto your television screen.
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The segment, titled "Destination: Nowhere," aired October 25 with correspondent Gianna Toboni, a VICE News alum.
It centered on Moussa Diawara, a man from Mali who came on a tourist visa, never went home, and stayed roughly 25 years.
In 2012, an immigration judge barred his return to Mali but left the door wide open to deportation anywhere else.
ICE picked him up in July, put him on a flight to Ghana, and Ghana sent him on to Mali within days.
60 Minutes framed it as a cruel trick played on an innocent family man.
DHS told CBS that Ghana had guaranteed his safety through diplomatic channels and that it doubted his fear claim was believable.
DHS General Counsel James Percival later pulled Diawara's immigration file, and what he found did not match the story told to the cameras.
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DHS kept a full recording of the sit-down, and Percival started posting the parts CBS dropped.
Toboni pressed him on migrants sent through Ghana to countries where American judges had blocked their return.
Percival asked her a simple question – were any of those people actually persecuted or tortured once they got home?
Toboni first leaned on the judges, saying a federal court had found they were likely to be harmed.
Percival asked again.
"Some have faced violence. But that's not what I'm alleging," Toboni answered.
Percival then laid out the logic in plain English – if Ghana were getting these cases wrong, Americans would be hearing about deportees being tortured back home.
They aren't hearing it, which means Ghana's screening is doing its job.
That exchange never aired.
Percival posted a second cut clip in which Toboni tried to shrink the murderers and rapists down to roughly two percent of detainees.
He shot back by asking whether that should be the only bar for who has to follow the law.
One Percival line did survive the edit: "This administration is following the law that Congress has passed."
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While 60 Minutes built its story around an Uber driver, ICE answered with a list of who else has been shipped to third countries.
ICE called them "some of the most dangerous and violent criminals we've removed to third countries."
Roberto Mosquera-Del Peral, a Latin Kings gang member, was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated battery on a police officer.
Pheap Rom carried convictions for attempted murder, aggravated assault, and unlawful firearm possession.
Those are the faces of third-country removal that never got a sad piano soundtrack on Sunday night.
The Supreme Court cleared the way for these removals in the summer of 2025, over a furious dissent from Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Former DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin celebrated at the time with a promise that "these sickos will be in South Sudan by Independence Day."
Diawara Told Two Different Stories About Mali and CBS Aired One
CBS parent company Paramount agreed to pay $16 million in July 2025 to settle Trump's lawsuit over the Kamala Harris edit, and the network clearly learned nothing.
This time it cut the one moment its reporter admitted she wasn't alleging anyone was tortured.
That moment was the whole story.
Without it, viewers got a weeping family and a villain in a suit.
With it, they would have seen a correspondent who couldn't back up the premise of her own segment.
Then there is the file.
On camera, Diawara told 60 Minutes he feared going back to Mali because he had converted to Christianity.
Percival posted that Diawara gave immigration officials a completely different reason – that he is gay.
One story went on national television, and the other never came up.
A network that actually wanted the truth would have asked Diawara which version immigration judges heard in 2012.
Percival has been fighting this exact con from the other direction, warning asylum lawyers in September that "If immigration attorneys commit fraud for their clients, the attorneys will be fined."
Shifting fear claims keep illegal aliens in this country, and network producers keep turning them into prime-time television.
Every Trump official who sits down with a network crew should bring a camera and press record before the first question.
Sources:
- Amy Curtis, "DHS General Counsel Shows Us What '60 Minutes' Cut From Its Interview With Him and It's Eye Opening," Townhall, October 27, 2026.
- Amy Curtis, "'60 Minutes' Ran a Hit Piece on Deportations. DHS Responded Brilliantly to Set the Record Straight," Townhall, October 26, 2026.
- Nicholas Spinnato, "'MAGA-Coded' 60 Minutes Bashes Deportation of Illegal Immigrant, Promotes Colorado Democrats," NewsBusters, October 26, 2026.
- Jasmine Baehr, Shannon Bream, and Bill Mears, "DHS Celebrates Supreme Court Win on Third-Country Deportations," Fox News, July 3, 2025.
- Charles Creitz, "DHS' Top Lawyer Threatens Penalties for Attorneys Clogging Asylum System," Fox News, September 18, 2026.
