🚨BREAKING: ICE says the man featured in a 60 Minutes deportation segment claimed he was gay to avoid being sent back to Mali — even though he has a wife and two children.
The program portrayed Moussa Diawara, 57, as a “Texas father” who had lived in the U.S. for 25 years with no criminal record and worked as an Uber driver. It showed his family reacting to his removal and said he was sent to Mali despite an earlier judge’s finding that he faced risk there.
ICE says the report left out that Diawara was in the country illegally and already had a final order of removal from a judge in 2012. According to the agency, he claimed he was homosexual and feared persecution in Mali in order to block deportation, a claim officials say is contradicted by the fact that he is married to a woman and shares two children with her.
DHS officials pulled his file and highlighted the claimed reason for protection. ICE posted that the segment highlighted an illegal alien and his family but omitted that he said he was gay to dodge removal to his home country.
60 Minutes described him as a longtime resident detained after finishing a night shift. ICE says the full record shows a man who overstayed a visa, received a removal order years ago, and made a specific claim about his sexual orientation that the agency views as inconsistent with his family situation.
The agency is now publicly questioning why the broadcast did not include those details.