National Security and Human Rights

On Jan. 18 CBS’s 60 Minutes aired Sharyn Alfonsi’s CECOT deportation segment — about a month after editor‑in‑chief Bari Weiss had it pulled from the Dec. 21 broadcast — adding written statements from the White House and Homeland Security and prompting CBS to frame the broadcast as evidence of editorial independence. The report says that between March and April last year exactly 252 Venezuelan men, including college student Luis Muñoz Pinto, were deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison under an Alien Enemies Act theory, offers graphic first‑person accounts of beatings and abuse, and notes that Alfonsi repeatedly sought but did not secure on‑camera interviews with key Trump administration officials.