BREAKING: Judge halts deportation of Boulder firebombing attack suspect’s family

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From Washington Examiner A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the deportation of the wife and five children of an Egyptian man accused of a firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday.

U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher granted the family’s request to pause deportation proceedings after immigration officials took them into federal custody on Tuesday

Mohamed Sabry Soliman faces federal hate crime and state attempted murder charges related to the incident, which used Molotov cocktails and targeted a solidarity walk for Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks, injuring 15 people and a dog.

Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national, arrived in the United States in 2022. His tourist visa and work authorization both expired in 2023, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.


Soliman’s family members – wife, 18-year-old daughter, two minor sons, and two minor daughters – are all are Egyptian citizens, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. They have not been charged in the attack. According to NBC News, family members of a person accused of a crime are not often detained or threatened with deportation.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Wednesday that federal authorities are swiftly acting when people overstay their visas in light of the Boulder attack.

Noem said they are still looking into the family’s involvement.

“We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it,” she said.

Soliman reportedly told authorities his family was not aware of his planned attack, according to court documents.

In halting the deportation proceedings, the Biden-appointed Gallagher wrote, “The court finds that deportation without process could work irreparable harm and an order must issue without notice due to the urgency this situation presents.”

 

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