60 Minutes gaslighted for an illegal alien on Sunday night by treating 25 years of unlawful presence as a reason he should get to stay. Getting away with immigration crime doesn’t absolve it. It makes it worse. The network aired a segment about Moussa Diawara, a Mali national who worked as a Texas Uber driver and was detained after his night shift. They call him a “Texas father” who lived in the U.S. for 25 years with no criminal record. What they leave out is that he entered on a tourist visa around 2001 and overstayed it. He remained here illegally the entire time. Twenty-five years of unenforced immigration law is not a character reference. It’s 25 years of knowing the rules and choosing not to follow them. No criminal record doesn’t cancel the original violation. It means he avoided other crimes while remaining in the country without authorization. The longer someone stays illegally, the longer they have used resources, worked jobs, and occupied space that citizens and legal residents are entitled to. Time spent breaking the law is not time that earns a reward. 60 Minutes treats the deportation as the injustice and the decades of illegal presence as the mitigating factor. That’s the reverse of how the law works. The fact that enforcement finally happened after 25 years is the correction, not the crime. Countries that treat long-term illegal residence as de facto citizenship stop having immigration laws at all. Getting caught after decades doesn’t turn Moussa Diawara into a victim of the system he ignored. It confirms the system was too slow to act. 60 Minutes wants the audience to feel sorry for the man who spent a quarter century here without legal status. The proper response is to enforce the law and stop pretending time erases it.