Musa Diawara overstayed a tourist visa by more than a decade before his deportation.
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VINCEOct 28, 2026
Multiple sources agree that Moussa (Musa) Diawara entered the U.S. on a tourist visa about 25 years ago, overstayed it, and was later deported, so the overstay was more than a decade before his July deportation.
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… Musa Diawara, a married father of two how do you become a father of two if you're gay? How does that happen? Somebody's gonna have to explain the birds and the bees to me again, because I feel like I got that wrong it was he was deported to Ghana in July, more than a decade after he overstayed a tourist visa and claimed refugee status that barred him from being sent back to his home country of Mali, according to the 60 Minutes profile. DHS insists that the news program left out an absurd bit of fraud from Diawara's asylum application: his claim that he's gay. I think there's a photo of him on screen. Ah, to be clear, he doesn't dress like he's gay. …
VINCE · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The 60 Minutes transcript states that Diawara entered the U.S. about 25 years ago and overstayed a tourist visa, before he was deported to Ghana on July 31.[1]
Supports. The Washington Examiner reports that both the CBS and Trump administration accounts agree he came on a tourist visa at age 32, overstayed it, and then claimed asylum.[2]
Supports. Coverage from the Trump admin critique and related reports says he was deported to Ghana in July, more than a decade after overstaying a tourist visa and claiming refugee status.[3][4]
Context. The sources dispute his reason for asylum (religious conversion per CBS versus claimed homosexuality per DHS), but that dispute does not affect the visa overstay element of the claim.[1][2]
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4 sources: 1 tier 2, 3 not rated
- 160 Minutes Transcript: How some deportees end up in countries ...cbsnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 2Trump admin goes after 60 Minutes for deportation case ...washingtonexaminer.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 3Trump admin slams CBS for leaving out 'absurd bit of fraud ...aol.co.uk · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4'60 Minutes' Slammed for Knowingly Airing Story on Man ...yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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- Mousa Diwara overstayed a tourist visa and claimed refugee status that barred him from being sent back to Mali.True
- Mousa Diwara, an illegal immigrant from Mali, was deported to Ghana in July.True
- The Trump administration deported Musa Diawara to Ghana in July 2026.True
- The individual had a final order of deportation since November 2025.True
- Siddharth Jhawar has been in the United States illegally for 21 years.Mixed