Joyce Kaufman's Thought of the Day 12/23/25 60 Minutes report on immigration leaks in Canada.

It turns out that CBS News Editor-in-Chief, Bari Weiss, was powerless to stop the release of a controversial 60-minute segment, highly critical of President Donald J. Trump's deportation policies before it was fixed to provide more context. On Monday, the leaked problematic report by activist reporter Sharon Alfanzi was posted to social media just a day after it was originally set to air on Sunday night's edition of the network's flagship news. program before it was pulled by Bari Weiss, igniting yet another tiresome firestone of leftist outrage. The spiked segment had been made available after it was mistakenly uploaded to Canada's global TV app after the 60 Minutes episode aired on Canada's global news without the story, which alleges that illegal aliens deported by the Trump administration were subjected to torture at the center of confinement of terrorism in El Salvador. Left-wing journalist Yashra Ali posted the leak segment to his blog, with it also being shared on social media platforms. There was blood everywhere, screams, people crying, people who couldn't take it and were urinating and vomiting on themselves, claimed one deported illegal in the sensational segment, which ran for nearly 14 minutes, variety reported. Four guards grabbed me, and they beat me until I bled, until the point of agony. They knocked our faces against the wall. That was when they broke one of my teeth. he said. It's a call and a cell for punishment where you can't see your hand in front of your face. After they locked us in, they came to beat us every half hour, and they pounded on the door with their sticks to traumatize us while we were in there, according to Axios. Another one told Alfonzi in the lurid and slanted peace that failed to provide information on the violent nature of Tren de Aragua, the savage Venezuelan gang that has been labeled by some as MS-13 on steroids. The main interest is identified as a Venezuelan college student caught up in the deportation, an obvious example of cherry-picking to misleadingly portray the vicious criminals who were deported as innocent victims of the Trump administration's cruelty, who were mistakenly and unjustly swept up and deprived of their constitutional rights. In a memo to disgruntled staffers obtained by Axios, Bari Weiss explained her rationale for pulling the report, including that the data we present Payne's of the 252 Venezuelan sent to Sikot, we say nearly half have no criminal histories. In other words, more than half do have criminal histories. My general view here is that we do our viewers the best service by presenting them with the full context they need to assess the story. In other words, I believe we need to do more reporting here, she said, but Bari Weiss's acting in her role as editor was rejected by her underlings, especially Alphonsey, who railed against her boss in an email to colleagues that was also leaked to the media.