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Gordon Gallagher, a Biden-appointed federal judge in Colorado, blocked the Trump administration on Wednesday from deporting the family of Mohamed Soliman, the suspect in Sunday’s Colorado terror attack.
Gallagher, the federal district judge, vacated the order, according to documents obtained by Fox News’s Bill Melugin.
BREAKING: Colorado federal judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee, has issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman. pic.twitter.com/Lo8R1Yp19E
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 4, 2025
Immigration authorities took Soliman’s wife and five kids into custody Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on X.
“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,” she said in a video.
Today, @DHSgov and @ICEGov are taking the family of suspected Boulder, Colorado terrorist, and illegal alien, Mohamed Soliman, into ICE custody.
This terrorist will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this… pic.twitter.com/fcjMiyWil7
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) June 3, 2025
Authorities accused Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national, of committing the Sunday terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado. He allegedly attacked pro-Israeli protesters with Molotov cocktails and a makeshift flamethrower while yelling “Free Palestine!” and “End Zionists!”
Soliman is reportedly an illegal alien who entered the country legally but overstayed his visa during the Biden administration.
“The Colorado Terrorist attack suspect, Mohamed Soliman, is illegally in our country,” a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Monday. “He entered the country on August 2022 on a B2 visa that expired on February 2023. He filed for asylum in September 2022.”
The Trump administration had planned to deport Soliman’s entire family back to Egypt, tweeting Tuesday “THEY COULD BE DEPORTED AS EARLY AS TONIGHT.”
JUST IN: The wife and five children of illegal alien Mohamed Soliman—the suspect in the antisemitic firebombing of Jewish Americans—have been captured and are now in ICE custody for expedited removal.
THEY COULD BE DEPORTED AS EARLY AS TONIGHT. pic.twitter.com/1EoBhqjzmU
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 3, 2025
