White House officials said a deported dad who featured on 60 Minutes lied about being gay to stay in the United States illegally.
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Moussa Diawara, 57, from Mali, was deported from Texas on July 30 after over two decades in the US, where he had married and had two children in Houston.
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Despite having no criminal record, Diawara was subject to a deportation order earlier this year by the Trump administration, who said he had overstayed a tourist visa from when he was 32.
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Diawara then applied for refugee protection and argued he would be persecuted if he was sent to Mali, and an immigration judge agreed and ruled that he would instead be sent to Ghana - a country he has no connection to.
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Within days of his arrival in Mali, Diawara claims that he was then forced onto a flight to Ghana, and he has been left trying to get back to his family in Texas, who told of their anguish to 60 Minutes.
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The CBS News show aired a gut-wrenching segment this week showing Diawara's 16-year-old son Corey speaking of how 'empty' he feels without his father.
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However, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) alleged after the show that the reason Diawara claimed he would be 'persecuted' in Mali was because he claimed to be homosexual, despite being happily married to a woman and having children.
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'You literally cannot make this up,' ICE wrote in a post on X.
Moussa Diawara, 57, from Mali, was deported from Texas on July 30 after over two decades in the US, as authorities claimed he overstayed a tourist visa and built a family in Houston
Diawara's wife and two children, who are US citizens, took part in a gushing 60 Minutes segment about Diawara's deportation
Following the 60 Minutes show, the Trump administration alleged that the married father claimed he was homosexual in his applications to remain in the US
The 60 Minutes segment was slated by several Trump administration accounts on social media on Sunday, with Homeland Security General Counsel James Percival saying it was an example of rampant fraud in US immigration.
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This illegal alien is 60 Minutes' poster child for what it claims are wrongful deportations,' Percival wrote on X.
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I pulled his file.
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His claimed reason for fearing Mali was that he is “gay,” just in case you’re wondering how bad the immigration fraud problem is.'
Homeland Security added that Diawara had been ordered to be removed from the US as long ago as February 2012, but he had allegedly remained illegally for a further 14 years.
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An immigration judge ruled at the time that Diawara could be removed to a 'safe alternative' to Mali if he was ever to be deported.
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However, the ruling also allowed Diawara to receive a US work permit, and he became an Uber driver, CBS News reported.
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He said he was finishing a late night shift on July 11 this year when ICE agents were waiting for him outside his Houston home.
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Diawara then spent three weeks in ICE detention in Texas, and he claimed he was unable to speak to his lawyer or a judge before being deported to Ghana.
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The Trump administration said it moved forward with Diawara's deportation after he had previously been ordered to be removed from the US as long ago as February 2012, but he had allegedly remained illegally for a further 14 years
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Diawara said he has been left stranded in Africa and fighting to get back to his family in Texas
He said in Ghana, a country he had no ties to and had never visited, Diawara said he and other deportees were held in a hotel by armed guards, and they were not able to call the outside world to tell loved ones where they were.
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'I cannot call my wife, I can't contact my lawyer.
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I can't talk to no one,' Diawara told CBS.
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'I tell them, 'This is kidnapping.
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You guys kidnapped us.''
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60 Minutes said it found Diawara homeless and hiding in Mali in August, before he was able to escape to another country with the help of local truckers.
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Diawara told the outlet that while he acknowledges the US had the right to deport him, he feels it was wrong to send him to Mali, and said he believes US authorities knew Ghana would send him there.
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The DHS said Ghana provided the US with 'diplomatic assurances' that Diawara would be safe before he was sent there.
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The Daily Mail has contacted CBS News for comment on the Trump administration's response to its 60 Minutes show.
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