’60 Minutes’ Featured Deported Illegal’s Sob Story. His Asylum Application Adds A Twist.

CBS News’ “60 Minutes” featured the story of a recently deported illegal alien who had been living in the United States for 25 years — interviewing his tearful wife and children for the show — but the Department of Homeland Security says they left out a few key details.

According to DHS — and an asylum application obtained by Fox News — Moussa Diawara, 57, described himself as gay and said he feared persecution over both his sexual orientation and his conversion to Christianity if he ever returned to his home country of Mali.

“This illegal alien is @60Minutes poster child for what it claims are wrongful deportations. I pulled his file. His claimed reason for fearing Mali was that he is ‘gay,’ just in case you’re wondering how bad the immigration fraud problem is,” DHS General Counsel James Percival posted on X.

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Fox News National Correspondent Brooke Taylor shared the asylum application, in which Diawara said his tribal group and his “community as a whole” had already somehow gotten wind of his proclivities and had informed his family — meaning that he did not believe he would be safe even from members of his own family if he returned to Mali.

“Although I was born as a boy, but things appeared differently for me as I was already having female behaviors and feelings … I was more comfortable being intimate with boys rather than with girls,” Diawara wrote.

Describing his life in the United States, he wrote: “Since I came to the USA I had the possibilities to express my feelings to men without any embarrassment no reserve.”

The application listed Diawara as single at the time. The pages Taylor shared do not say when he married.

???? #FOXEXCLUSIVE: 60 Minutes featured a deported Malian national whose wife and two children spoke about how much they miss him and want him home.

But we exclusively obtained Moussa Diawara’s asylum application, where he said he was seeking asylum in the U.S. because he was gay and feared being killed if sent back.

Now, DHS is pointing to his case as an example of alleged immigration fraud.

In his own words, Diawara wrote:

“Although I was born as a boy, but things appeared differently for me as I was already having female behaviors and feelings.”

“I was more comfortable being intimate with boys rather than with girls.”

And describing his life after arriving in the United States:

“Since I came to the USA I had the possibilities to express my feelings to men without any embarrassment no reserve.”

Read the asylum application for yourself:

— Brooke Taylor (@Brooketaylortv) October 26, 2026

Diawara also noted that he had converted to Christianity eight months before the statement.

CBS News, in a print article that accompanied the “60 Minutes” broadcast, presented the story in a slightly different light:

Diawara, 57, came to the U.S. on a tourist visa when he was 32. He overstayed that visa, and later applied for refugee protection, arguing he would be persecuted if he were to return to Mali. Diawara had converted to Christianity, and Mali’s a Muslim-majority nation with an Islamist insurgency. He has no criminal record.

Diawara, who has been portrayed by liberal media outlets as a “Texas father,” was deported to Ghana over the summer because a judge barred his deportation to Mali. Once in Ghana, however, officials reportedly forced him onto a flight to his home country.

“I cannot call my wife, I can’t contact my lawyer. I can’t talk to no one. I tell them, ‘This is kidnapping. You guys kidnapped us,'” he told “60 Minutes.”

Diawara also said he believed U.S. officials knew he would be returned to Mali once he arrived in Ghana.

Asked whether deportees were voluntarily returning to countries they had fled, Percival offered two possible explanations.

“Either they would choose to go home, and they might not always be truthful about the fact that they consented, so that’s one possibility. The other possibility is that the foreign government applied their own procedures and, consistent with international law, determined that it was acceptable to return them home,” he said.

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