Returning illegal migrant from El Salvador ‘an exercise in futility’: Legal scholars

Returning an illegal immigrant and alleged past MS-13 member seized in Baltimore last month and sent to a Salvadoran prison is likely a wasted effort since the administration could easily change his immigration status and deport him again, according to legal experts.

“Any such return might be nothing more than an exercise in futility,” George Washington University Law School professor John Banzhaf said. “There might be little purpose in flying him back if, upon his return to the U.S., his ‘withholding of removal’ status would very likely be immediately revoked,” he said on Tuesday.

At issue is the arrest and deportation last month of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is described in the media as a “Maryland man,” entered the United States illegally in 2011, and was described

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