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Malay Mail
5 days ago
- General
- Malay Mail
US judge temporarily blocks deportation of family of Colorado attack suspect
WASHINGTON, June 5 — A federal judge in Colorado on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of the Egyptian man charged in a fire-bomb attack in Boulder, Colorado. US District Court Judge Gordon Gallagher said in an order that deporting the family members, who include children ages 4 to 17, without adequate process could cause 'irreparable harm.' His ruling, which set a hearing for June 13, came in response to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the family of the Egyptian national charged with tossing gasoline bombs at a pro-Israeli rally in Colorado on Sunday. The family's suit, filed in federal court in Colorado, sought to win their release from custody and block their deportation while they seek asylum in the US, according to court documents. The Trump administration said on Tuesday that the family members were arrested and would be deported in a fast-track proceeding known as expedited removal. The family's lawsuit argued the process was not applicable because they have lived in the US more than two years. The lawsuit said Hayam El Gamal 'was shocked' to learn that her husband, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was arrested in the Boulder attack on a gathering that commemorated Israeli hostages. 'It is patently unlawful to punish individuals for the crimes of their relatives,' a filing seeking their release said. 'Such methods of collective or family punishment (violate) the very foundations of a democratic justice system.' White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said in an X post that Gallagher, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, was giving 'extraordinary preferential treatment to illegal alien foreign terrorists.' 'The Boulder terrorist is an illegal, his entire family that he imported to America are illegals, and now a Biden Judge is blocking their deportation,' he said. 'End the judicial coup.' Federal officials have said Soliman was in the US illegally after overstaying a tourist visa and had an expired work permit. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said federal agents were 'investigating to what extent his family knew about this horrific attack — if they had any knowledge of it or if they provided any support for it.' El Gamal, 41, is an Egyptian national who was born in Saudi Arabia, according to the lawsuit. She and her children entered the US on visitor visas in August 2022 and are dependents under her husband's still-pending asylum application, the suit said. El Gamal is a network engineer and had applied for a work visa, the filing said. — Reuters
Al Jazeera
5 days ago
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
US judge halts deportation of family of suspect in pro-Israel rally attack
A United States judge has temporarily blocked the deportation of family members related to a suspect accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado. The ruling on Wednesday came after the administration of President Donald Trump arrested the wife of Mohamed Soliman and their five children in an effort to deport them. Judge Gordon Gallagher wrote that Soliman's wife, Hayam El Gamal, and her children cannot be removed from the country as long as his order stands. 'Moreover, the Court finds that deportation without process could work irreparable harm,' the judge said. El Gamal, who has not been charged with a crime, had filed a legal petition for her release. Soliman, meanwhile, has been charged with a federal hate crime over the attack on Sunday, which injured 12 people. It is unclear if the Trump administration has any evidence that Soliman's relatives committed wrongdoing, or if they were simply targeted for their association with him. Authorities have indicated that Soliman appears to have acted alone in the attack. Still, Trump officials signalled they would take an aggressive approach to investigating and deporting individuals they perceived to be linked to 'terrorism'. 'In light of yesterday's horrific attack, all terrorists, their family members, and terrorist sympathizers here on a visa should know that under the Trump Administration we will find you, revoke your visa, and deport you,' Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a social media post on Monday. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed on Tuesday the detention of Elgamal, her three daughters and her two sons, four of whom are minors. '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,' Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a video posted online. 'Justice will be served.' According to DHS, Soliman and his family arrived in the US on temporary visas in 2022 before applying for asylum. Soliman's visa expired in 2023. Media reports indicate that El Gamal, meanwhile, applied for an employment visa: She has a background as a network engineer. Critics say the tactic of penalising the relatives of a criminal suspect is a form of unlawful collective punishment. In the West Bank, for instance, human rights groups have denounced Israeli operations that demolished the homes of Palestinians related to suspects in armed attacks. The attack in Colorado has been linked to Israel's war on Gaza, which United Nations experts have described as a genocide. The suspect allegedly yelled 'Free Palestine' during the fire-bombing. The Washington-backed war has also sparked other violent incidents on US soil. The incident in Colorado followed the killing of two Israeli Embassy staff members in Washington, DC, last month. In October 2023, a six-year-old Palestinian boy was stabbed to death in the Chicago area in another crime linked to the war. The 73-year-old suspect reportedly told the boy's mother that Muslims 'must die' as he attacked them. He was sentenced to 53 years after being convicted of murder and hate crimes. Weeks later, three Palestinian American students were shot and severely wounded in Vermont. The war on Gaza has killed at least 54,607 Palestinians, according to health officials.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Judge BLOCKS deportation of Colorado terror suspect's family
A federal judge in Colorado has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of the suspect in a fire-bomb attack in Boulder, Colorado. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, allegedly injured 12 people aged between 52 and 88 - setting at least one ablaze - at a demonstration honoring the October 7 victims who are still being held hostage by Hamas militants in Gaza. Boulder Police said the horror unfolded during an event organized by Run For Their Lives on Pearl Street Mall in the city's downtown just before 1.30pm local time on Sunday, the first day of a Jewish holiday called Shavuot. The wife and five children of the suspect were arrested by authorities on Tuesday, and taken into custody by agents with ICE and Homeland Security. On Wednesday, US District Court Judge Gordon Gallagher said in an order that deporting the family without adequate process could cause 'irreparable harm.' Lawyers representing the family of the Egyptian national charged with tossing gasoline bombs at a pro-Israeli rally in Colorado on Sunday sued the U.S. government on Wednesday, seeking to win the family members' release from custody and block their deportation, according to court documents. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Colorado, said that Hayam El Gamal, the wife of the suspect in the attack, 'was shocked to learn that her husband (Mohamed Sabry Soliman) was arrested for having committed a violent act against a peaceful gathering of individuals commemorating Israeli hostages.' The suit called for the family to be released while they seek asylum in the U.S. 'It is patently unlawful to punish individuals for the crimes of their relatives,' a filing said. 'Such methods of collective or family punishment violates the very foundations of a democratic justice system.' While the White House said the family would be deported through a fast-track process known as expedited removal, the lawsuit stated the family would not be subject to that process because they have resided in the U.S. for more than two years.
New York Times
5 days ago
- General
- New York Times
Lawsuit Seeks to Release Family of Suspect in Colorado Attack
Lawyers representing the wife and children of the man charged with attacking an event honoring Israeli hostages sued the U.S. government on Wednesday, seeking to release the family from custody and block their deportation, according to a court filing. Hayam El Gamal, the wife of Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the Egyptian man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a crowd in Boulder, Colo., on Sunday, was arrested on Tuesday along with her five children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The lawsuit was filed by Ms. El Gamal's immigration lawyers and others seeking to help the family. The suit says that Ms. El Gamal and her five children entered the United States on tourist visas in 2022. The children are between 4 and 17 years old, according to the lawsuit. The filing, in Federal District Court in Colorado, said that Ms. El Gamal 'was shocked to learn' that her husband 'was arrested for having committed a violent act against a peaceful gathering of individuals commemorating Israeli hostages.' Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said her agency would be investigating what the family knew about the attack before it happened. 'Today the Department of Homeland Security and ICE are taking the family of suspected Boulder, Colo., terrorist and illegal alien Mohamed Soliman into ICE custody,' Ms. Noem said on social media on Tuesday. Later that day, the White House indicated in a social media message that the family could be deported imminently. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security said that ICE was 'processing Soliman's family members for removal proceedings from the U.S.' The filing on Wednesday said Ms. El Gamal was a network engineer who has lived in Colorado Springs for nearly three years and had applied for a U.S. work visa. Her husband, Mr. Soliman, also entered the country in 2022 with a tourist visa and quickly applied for asylum. His visa expired in early 2023, U.S. officials said, but he overstayed it. The lawsuit says that the family is part of his asylum application and that it is pending. It also includes emails that Ms. El Gamal purportedly sent to her immigration lawyer on Tuesday, the day she was arrested. 'Hi please call urgently Florence Colorado ice office,' one email reads. Eric Lee, one of the lawyers representing Ms. El Gamal, said the family was being detained at a family detention center in Texas. The lawsuit requests that a federal judge order the release of Ms. El Gamal and her family. 'Punishing individuals for the alleged actions of their relatives is a feature of premodern justice systems or police state dictatorships, not democracies,' Mr. Lee said in an interview. 'The detention and attempted removal of this family is an assault on core democratic principles and should provoke widespread opposition in the population, immigrant and nonimmigrant alike.'
