Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons told Newsmax on Tuesday that a now-withdrawn “60 Minutes” segment alleging misconduct in the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador misrepresented how U.S. immigration enforcement operates and ignored key facts about those removed from the country.
Lyons responded on “Rob Schmitt Tonight” to reports that “60 Minutes” had pulled a segment scheduled to air Sunday examining the deportation of roughly 250 Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador’s high-security CECOT prison.
The segment, portions of which later circulated on social media, suggested the migrants were improperly detained despite committing no serious crimes beyond entering the U.S. illegally.
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