Judge ends order blocking deportation of family of man charged in Boulder firebomb attack

A national Judge connected Wednesday (July 2, 2025) ended an bid blocking the deportation of the household of the antheral charged successful the fatal firebomb onslaught successful Boulder, Colorado, noting authorities lawyers accidental the man's relatives are not being rushed retired of the state arsenic the White House primitively stated.

Hayam El Gamal and her 5 children were detained by migration agents connected June 3, 2 days aft her hubby Mohamed Sabry Soliman was accused of throwing 2 Molotov cocktails astatine radical demonstrating for consciousness of Israeli hostages successful Gaza. Prosecutors announced connected Monday (June 30, 2025) that an 82-year-old pistillate who was injured successful the onslaught had died.

U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garica dismissed the family's suit challenging their detention by migration authorities. The ruling noted that Ms. El Gamal and her children ages 4 to 18 are not eligible for expedited deportations due to the fact that they person been successful the state for implicit 2 years, which helium said lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement person acknowledged.

Mr. Soliman is an Egyptian nationalist who national authorities accidental was surviving successful the U.S. illegally. He is being prosecuted successful some State and Federal Court for the attack, which prosecutors accidental injured a full of 13 people. Investigators accidental helium planned the onslaught for a twelvemonth and was driven by a tendency “to termination each Zionist people.” He has pleaded not blameworthy to national hatred crimes charges but hasn't been asked to participate a plea successful the authorities case, which present includes a execution charge.

On the time El Gamal and her children were arrested, the White House said successful societal 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 telephone coming soon." Those statements led a national justice successful Colorado to contented an exigency bid temporarily blocking the family's deportation, Mr. Garcia said.

The lawsuit was aboriginal transferred to Texas, wherever the household is being held successful an migration detention halfway for families. Mr. Garcia is based successful San Antonio.

Because the household is successful regular deportation proceedings, determination is nary longer immoderate crushed to artifact their deportation, Mr. Garcia said. Regular proceedings tin instrumentality months oregon adjacent years if decisions are appealed. He besides turned down the family's petition to beryllium released from the detention halfway successful the meantime, saying they tin prosecute merchandise done the mean enslaved process successful the migration system.

Lawyers for the household had challenged their detention arsenic unconstitutional due to the fact that they said it was intended to punish them for Mr. Soliman's actions. According to a tribunal filing by Ms. El Gamal's lawyers, 1 of the migration agents who arrested them told her, “You person to wage for the consequences of what you did.”

Mr. Garcia said migration authorities person discretion successful deciding who to detain and helium did not person authorization to reappraisal their determination to detain Ms. El Gamal and her children. Lawyers for the authorities said they are being lawfully held due to the fact that they are accused of overstaying their visas.

One of the family's attorneys, Niels Frenzen, said they hoped to get the household released from the detention halfway portion the deportation proceedings continue.

An email seeking remark from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not instantly returned.