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Judge ends order blocking deportation of family of man charged in
Boulder firebomb attack
By Associated Press
Updated:
7:33 PM EDT, Wed July 2, 2025
Denver, Colorado (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ended an order
blocking the deportation of the family of the man charged in the fatal
firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, noting government lawyers say the
man’s relatives are not being rushed out of the country as the White
House originally stated.
were detained by immigration agents on June 3, two days after her
husband Mohamed Sabry Soliman was accused of throwing two Molotov
cocktails at people demonstrating for awareness of Israeli hostages in
Gaza. Prosecutors announced Monday that an who was injured in the
attack had died.
US District Judge Orlando L. Garica dismissed the family’s lawsuit
challenging their detention by immigration authorities. The ruling
noted that El Gamal and her children ages 4 to 18 are not eligible for
expedited deportations because they have been in the country for over
two years, which he said lawyers for the Department of Homeland
Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have acknowledged.
Soliman is an Egyptian national who federal authorities say was living
in the US illegally. He is being prosecuted in both state and for the
attack, which prosecutors say injured a total of 13 people.
Investigators say he planned the attack for a year and was driven by a
desire “.” He has pleaded not guilty to federal hate crimes charges
but hasn’t been asked to enter a plea in the state case, which now
includes a murder charge.
On the day El Gamal and her children were arrested, the White House
said in social media posts that they “COULD BE DEPORTED AS EARLY AS
TONIGHT” and that six one-way tickets had been purchased for them,
with their “final boarding call coming soon.” Those statements led
a federal judge in Colorado to issue an temporarily blocking the
family’s deportation, Garcia said.
The case was later transferred to Texas, where the family is being held
in an immigration detention center for families. Garcia is based in San
Antonio.
Because the family is in regular deportation proceedings, there is no
longer any reason to block their deportation, Garcia said. Regular
proceedings can take months or even years if decisions are appealed. He
also turned down the family’s request to be released from the
detention center in the meantime, saying they can pursue release
through the normal bond process in the immigration system.
Lawyers for the family had challenged their detention as
unconstitutional because they said it was intended to punish them for
Soliman’s actions. According to a court filing by El Gamal’s
lawyers, one of the immigration agents who arrested them told her,
“You have to pay for the consequences of what you did.”
Garcia said immigration authorities have discretion in deciding who to
detain and he did not have authority to review their decision to detain
El Gamal and her children. Lawyers for the government said they are
being lawfully held because they are accused of overstaying their
visas.
One of the family’s attorneys, Niels Frenzen, said they hoped to get
the family released from the detention center while the deportation
proceedings continue.
An email seeking comment from the Department of Homeland Security and
Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not immediately returned.
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