Boulder attack suspect's family will be deported back to Egypt this week: US Official
DENVER (KDVR) — The family of the suspect in Sunday's attack of Israeli hostage supporters in Boulder will be deported back to Egypt this week, according to a federal official.
Rep. Michael McCaul, a Republican from Texas who serves as chairman emeritus for the House committees on Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs, confirmed to Nexstar Washington Correspondent Vinay Simlot in a Wednesday interview that Mohamed Sabry Soliman's family, including his wife and five children, is being processed for deportation.
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Soliman, an Egyptian national officials say is illegally in the U.S. due to an expired visa, is accused both federally and in state charges of attacking with Molotov cocktails a group from Run for Their Lives as they were peacefully demonstrating while calling for the release of Israeli hostage in Gaza. Boulder County officials say 15 people were injured in the attack.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem on Tuesday confirmed federal agencies had taken Soliman's family into custody in a post on X. The department is investigating whether any of them knew of Soliman's plans, Noem said in the post.
'They're being processed right now,' McCaul said Wednesday morning. 'They will be deported back to Egypt.' When Simlot asked whether it would happen this week, McCaul said, 'yeah.'
The White house official X account on Tuesday saying, 'Six One-Way Tickets for Mohamed's Wife and Five Kids. Final Boarding Call Coming Soon,' and that his family could have been deported as soon as that night.
McCaul said he was briefed by the FBI on Tuesday about the attack, reaffirming Soliman's status of overstaying a tourist visa.
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A senior Department of Homeland Security official had already confirmed to FOX31 that Soliman is in the U.S. illegally because he stayed in the country after his August 2022 B2 visa expired in February 2023. DHS said he filed for asylum in September 2022.
'That raises the whole immigration debate again about people who should be here versus shouldn't be,' McCaul said. 'He shouldn't have been here. He overstayed his visa and shouldn't have been allowed to stay in the country.'
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in a press release on Wednesday morning said Noem is directed a crackdown on others who overstay visas following Soliman's alleged attack.
'There is NO room in the United States for the rest of the world's terrorist sympathizers,' Noem said in the press release. 'Anyone who thinks they can come to America and advocate for antisemitic violence and terrorism – think again. You are not welcome here. We will find you, deport you, and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.'
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