‘Asked Me The Same Question Five Times!’ DHS Attorney Snaps At 60 Minutes Reporter Over Deportation SNAFUs
A Department of Homeland Security attorney snapped at new 60 Minutes correspondent Gianna Toboni for doggedly pursuing an answer on deportation issues that have been sending detainees back to their home countries where they fear for their lives. Toboni asked DHS lawyer James Percival why the U.S. deports people to third countries. “So, like, one example is somebody, maybe they’re a serious criminal, and the country just won’t take them back. Another is sometimes aliens get a country-specific form of relief where the immigration judge says, ‘You need to leave the United States but you have to go somewhere other than your home country,'” Percival said. “When an immigration judge rules that someone cannot safely be sent back to their home country, it’s called ‘Withholding of Removal,” Toboni reported. But she found that some countries transported deportees “against their will, to countries…
