If Kilmar Abrego Garcia is able to return to the United States, U.S. officials would deport him to El Salvador again or another country, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said on April 15.
If Garcia makes it to a port of entry, “he would become subject to detention by DHS,” Joseph N. Mazzara, acting general counsel for DHS, wrote in a court filing. “In that case, DHS would take him into custody in the United States and either remove him to a third country or terminate his withholding of removal because of his membership in MS-13, a designated foreign terrorist organization, and remove him to El Salvador.”…