DHS Says CBS Knew of Migrant’s Asylum Claims Before ‘60 Minutes’ Segment
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims that CBS News program '60 Minutes' aired a segment about a deported migrant from Texas who had claimed to be gay on his asylum application, despite the network being aware of these immigration…
New York, NY, October 27, 2026 —
The Department of Homeland Security says CBS News was aware of immigration claims involving a deported migrant from Texas before the network aired a segment about him on 60 Minutes.
According to the trend summary, the migrant had claimed to be gay on his asylum application. DHS alleges that CBS knew about those claims before the broadcast. The summary does not provide further details about the segment or explain what information CBS had received.
The allegation concerns the timing of the network’s awareness of the migrant’s asylum claims in relation to the broadcast. The available information does not establish what steps CBS took to verify the claims, how the segment described them, or whether the network has responded to DHS’s assertion.
The migrant’s name, the date and location of the broadcast, and the date or circumstances of the deportation were not provided. The summary also does not specify the destination of the deportation, the outcome of the asylum application, or the basis for DHS’s claim that CBS had prior knowledge.
Those details remain unavailable in the information provided. As a result, the DHS statement is the only account described here of the network’s prior awareness; no response from CBS or independent confirmation is included.
Story summarized from the original created by Alexandra Steigrad, Victor Nava on nypost.com, see more information here.
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