CBS delays ’60 Minutes’ interview of El Salvador prison detainees, says story needed additional work

CBS on Sunday evening postponed the airing of a story on its long-form news show “60 Minutes” in which migrants sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s maximum-security prison, CECOT, were interviewed. The story was going to feature correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewing “some of the now released deportees, who describe the brutal and torturous conditions, according to FoxNews.com.
“Earlier this year, the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, a country most had no ties to, claiming they were terrorists. This move sparked an ongoing legal battle, and nine months later the U.S. government still has not released the names of all those deported and placed in CECOT, one of El Salvador’s harshest prisons,” CBS said press release for the segment. 
Hours before the story was set to air, the show released an editor’s note on X stating, without explanation, the story was being delayed. However, a CBS spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the network determined the story “needed additional reporting.”

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