Lawyers for the wife and children of the man charged with attacking an event supporting hostages in Gaza filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking their release.
A federal judge in Colorado on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting the wife and children of the Egyptian man charged with attacking an event honoring Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colo.
Judge Gordon P. Gallagher of the U.S. District Court in Colorado wrote that the administration “shall not remove” the woman, Hayem El Gamal, and her five children from the United States until further rulings in the case, adding that deportation could cause “irreparable harm.” He set hearings in the case for next week.
Ms. El Gamal is the wife of Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the Egyptian man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at the crowd in Boulder on Sunday. She was arrested on Tuesday along with her five children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
The White House indicated on social media on Tuesday that the family could be deported imminently, and the Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday, before the judge’s order, that ICE was “processing Soliman’s family members for removal proceedings from the U.S.”
Lawyers representing the family had filed a lawsuit seeking to release them from custody and block their deportation earlier on Wednesday.
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 children entered the United States on tourist visas in 2022. The children are between 4 and 17 years old, according to the lawsuit.
