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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Judge blocks Trump administration from quickly deporting family of Boulder firebombing suspect
A federal judge in Colorado on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from quickly deporting the family of the accused fire bomber who injured multiple people last weekend at a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado. Colorado District Court Judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, ruled that the U.S. government cannot remove Hayem El Gamal and her five children from Colorado pending further notice from him or the court of appeals. El Gamal is the wife of Mohamad Sabry Soliman, the 45-year-old from Colorado Springs charged with federal and state hate crime charges for throwing Molotov cocktails and using a 'makeshift flamethrower' on pro-Israel protestors at an event organized by Run For Their Lives, which met weekly at a pedestrian street in Boulder. The attack earlier this week was the latest incident of high-profile violence against Jewish Americans, and one that the Trump administration quickly described as fueled by a rise of antisemitism. His wife and children were taken into ICE custody and were facing expedited removal on Tuesday, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. '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,' Noem said in the announcement. Sabry Soliman planned the attack for more than a year, and had 'no regrets' about his actions, acting U.S. Attorney J. Bishop Grewell for the District of Colorado said Monday in a press conference. Since the attack, details about Sabry Soliman's immigration status — he's an Egyptian national who has been living in the U.S. illegally since overstaying his visa after February 2023, administration officials have said — have tied the Boulder attack to President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy denouncing illegal migration in the U.S. 'These individuals are going to be deported, and we're not going to tolerate such violence in our country,' White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing on Monday. A hearing on a temporary restraining order request in their case is set for late next week.
Politico
2 days ago
- Politics
- Politico
Judge blocks Trump administration from quickly deporting family of Boulder firebombing suspect
A federal judge in Colorado on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from quickly deporting the family of the accused fire bomber who injured multiple people last weekend at a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado. Colorado District Court Judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, ruled that the U.S. government cannot remove Hayem El Gamal and her five children from Colorado pending further notice from him or the court of appeals. El Gamal is the wife of Mohamad Sabry Soliman, the 45-year-old from Colorado Springs charged with federal and state hate crime charges for throwing Molotov cocktails and using a 'makeshift flamethrower' on pro-Israel protestors at an event organized by Run For Their Lives, which met weekly at a pedestrian street in Boulder. The attack earlier this week was the latest incident of high-profile violence against Jewish Americans, and one that the Trump administration quickly described as fueled by a rise of antisemitism. His wife and children were taken into ICE custody and were facing expedited removal on Tuesday, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. '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,' Noem said in the announcement. Sabry Soliman planned the attack for more than a year, and had 'no regrets' about his actions, acting U.S. Attorney J. Bishop Grewell for the District of Colorado said Monday in a press conference. Since the attack, details about Sabry Soliman's immigration status — he's an Egyptian national who has been living in the U.S. illegally since overstaying his visa after February 2023, administration officials have said — have tied the Boulder attack to President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy denouncing illegal migration in the U.S. 'These individuals are going to be deported, and we're not going to tolerate such violence in our country,' White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing on Monday. A hearing on a temporary restraining order request in their case is set for late next week.
Time of India
3 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Visa overstays in US persist without much scrutiny
The suspect in the Boulder attack, entered the US legally on a tourist visa in 2022 and overstayed. He applied for asylum and received a work permit that later expired. Visa overstays represent a significant portion of the undocumented population, with estimates suggesting over 40% arrived legally by air and remained unlawfully, posing tracking challenges. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Also Read: A weaker Harvard is a weaker America Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads The suspect in the Boulder, Colorado, attack highlights a type of immigrant who has been largely absent from the heated political messaging on immigration: a person who arrives in the United States legally, on a tourist or other temporary visa , and remains after their permission to stay has Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national accused of carrying out the attack in Colorado, entered on a tourist visa in August 2022 that would have allowed him to remain in the country for six months once he presented his passport to a US Customs and Border Protection official at an airport on arrival. Only later did he apply for officials shared more information on Soliman's immigration status Monday. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security , said he had been granted a work permit in March 2023 after he applied for asylum with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency within the department. But that permit had expired, she said, even as Soliman had not received a final decision on his fiscal year 2023, the government estimated there were about 400,000 such overstays, according to an official report issued by the Department of Homeland Security. That year, about 2,400 Egyptians in the United States had overstayed their visas, or about 4% of all arrivals from that country, the report overall, the numbers are significant, even if President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress tend to talk up migrants who cross the southwestern border to enter the United States or present themselves to border agents and request than 40% of the immigrants without permanent legal status flew into the country with a visa, passed inspection at the airport and then stayed unlawfully, according to estimates by the Center for Migration Studies, a nonpartisan think tank."Scholars have long recognized that visa overstays constitute a significant share of the undocumented population," said Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration scholar at Cornell Law School."This segment has not received nearly as much attention as people entering illegally across the U.S.-Mexico border because they are simply not as visible," he and tracking so-called visa overstays is extremely difficult, and they have not historically been a priority for issued to a wide range of foreigners, from camp counselors to tourists and business travelers, can result in overstays. Students who enter the United States for a summer program should leave when that program ends, change to another immigration status, or pursue another program of study to maintain their lawful in the past if they stayed beyond the time permitted, they would most likely not be detained unless they had committed a crime or were in police custody.
