60 Minutes Transcript: Inside Trump's third-country deportations
Summary
The report examines the Trump administration’s use of deportations to countries other than migrants’ home countries. It describes the case of Moussa Diawara, who was sent from the U.S. to Ghana and then to Mali, despite a U.S. immigration judge’s ruling that he could not be deported to Mali because he faced a risk of persecution there.Key Facts
- The report says nearly one million people were deported from the U.S. during the first year and a half of President Donald Trump’s second term.
- About 25,000 people were sent to third countries rather than to their countries of origin, according to the report.
- The report says third-country deportations can be legal and that previous administrations also used them, but on a smaller scale.
- Moussa Diawara had lived in the U.S. for 25 years and had no criminal record, according to the report.
- A U.S. immigration judge ruled in 2012 that Diawara could be deported but not to Mali, where he said he feared persecution.
- ICE detained Diawara in Texas for three weeks and deported him to Ghana on July 31, the report says.
- Diawara said he was held in a Ghanaian hotel and then forced onto a flight to Mali within five days.
- The report says Diawara later left Mali with help from local truckers and went to another African country whose location he asked not to disclose.
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