The “60 Minutes” segment pulled from air by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss did not include new comments from Trump administration officials, according to a copy of the segment viewed by Axios.
Zoom in: The segment included interviews with two people who were imprisoned at CECOT, an executive from the nonprofit Human Rights Watch and the director of UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center Investigations Lab.
One college student, who was detained by U.S. customs before getting deported to CECOT, describes being tortured upon arrival.
Another man told Alfonsi that he and others were taken to “a little room where there’s no light, no ventilation, nothing.”
“It’s a cell for punishment where you can’t see your hand in front of your face. After they locked us in, they came to beat us every half hour, and they pounded on the door with their sticks to traumatize us while we were in there.”
“60 Minutes” also said it reviewed available ICE data to confirm Human Rights Watch’s findings that suggested only eight deported men had been sentenced for violent or potentially violent crimes.
The other side: The segment ends with Alfonsi saying the Department of Homeland Security “declined our request for an interview and referred all questions about CECOT to El Salvador. The government there did not respond to our request.”
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