Colorado Judge Blocks Trump From Deporting Terror Suspect’s Family
ICE has in custody Mohamed Soliman’s wife Hayam Salah Alsaid Ahmed Elgamal and their five children.
Colorado District Judge Gordon Gallagher blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting the family of terror suspect Mohamad Soliman.
Gallagher wrote (I eliminated the citations):
Pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C § 1651(a) and Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(b), and in order to preserve the Court’s jurisdiction, Defendants SHALL NOT REMOVE Hayem El Gamal and her five children from the District of Colorado or the United States unless or until this court or the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit vacates this order. Moreover, the Court finds that deportation without process could work irreparable harm and an order must issue without notice due to the urgency this situation presents.
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
Susanna Dvortsin, who petitioned the court to stay the deportation of the firebomber's wife and children–called the "Next Friend"–was barred from the practice of law owing to misconduct in an immigration matter in South Dakota in 2019. https://t.co/AddTjJfQMP
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 4, 2025
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Tuesday that ICE took Soliman’s family into custody to find out how much, if any, they knew about the attack:
- Hayam Salah Alsaid Ahmed Elgamal, a 41-year-old Egyptian citizen and wife of Soliman.
- Habiba Mohamed Sabry Farag Soliman, an 18-year-old Egyptian citizen and daughter of Soliman.
- Two minor sons and two minor daughters, all of whom are Egyptian citizens and children of Soliman.
The Soliman family came to America on August 27, 2022, and was granted entry until February 26, 2023.
Soliman asked for asylum, listing his family as dependents.
Former President Joe Biden’s administration granted Soliman work authorization, which ended at the end of March 2025.
Soliman stands accused of attacking a pro-Israel rally in Boulder with Molotov cocktails, leaving 12 people injured, including a Holocaust survivor.
The suspect faces two federal hate crimes. The state plans to file formal charges on Thursday.
Soliman told law enforcement that “he wanted to kill all Zionist people” and planned “the attack for a year and was waiting until after his daughter graduated to conduct the attack.”
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Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the poor family of the terrorist that tried to light Jews on fire!?!?!?!?
He did more than just try.
17 burned, about 8 seriously.
And the 88 year old woman was a Holocaust survivor! She survived the Nazis but not the Muslims.
“She survived the Nazis but not the Muslims.”
Nor the Biden Judges.
Gordon Gallagher gets this week’s Norm MacDonald Award.
“Judge blocks Trump from deporting terrorist’s family”
“Why,” you ask? So that senators won’t have to travel overseas to visit them, check on their welfare and give them gifts and shite.
Cancel the shipment of margaritas and order a couple of cases of Egyptian arak.
This is ridiculous.
I say drop the Muslim murderer’s family at the front door is the judge’s house.
From what altitude?
World Trade Center height.
I say, accidently sweep up Gordon Gallagher with the terror supporting family, deport all of them.
Or just ignore the jerk off. This is getting old.
Virginia42:
As much as I would like to agree with you I cannot. I believe that Trump’s administration is doing the right thing even when following the “judicial” decisions of deranged “judges”.
Immediately appeal these crazy decisions, making sure that all of the “i”‘s are dotted ant “t”‘s crossed, and then ram that overturning of it up the idiot’s posterior. With a sufficient number of these minor-court “judges” being overturned with severe slaps on the wrist from higher courts, the number of them will fall off sharply.
In the meantime, follow the exact written direction of the “judge’s” order. Keep them in the shittiest jail they can find in the District of Colorado. and give the adult family members the EXACT SAME treatment that the J6 prisoners got from the Biden Cabal. Sooner or later, after however many months of solitary confinement (for their own protection, of course) they’ll be begging to be sent back to Egypt. For any children, immediately foster them out to some nice family (only a coincidence that they’re devout Christians, or better yet, Mormons) and try to turn their lives around.
This way the Trumpians can claim the moral high ground by noting that they are following all of these injunctions and adhering to the rule-of-law, no matter how ridiculous, while simultaneously messing with the collectivist hive-mind.
The judiciary is losing its collective mind. Sooner or later there’s gonna be a very vigorous pushback by the Executive and Congress.
Right!!!
Crickets
Unleash Stephen Miller and let him run the Executive Branch response, plenty of cards to play by the Executive to make things difficult for the Judiciary. Be petty, be vindictive do whatever powers the Executive has to get their attention.
There should be but I;m beginning to doubt there will be.
“Sooner or later there’s gonna be a very vigorous pushback by the Executive and Congress.”
Agreed, and frankly this is the hill they need to die on. When some dickweed judge can prohibit the administration from exercising their lawful powers to evict illegals who LIGHT PEOPLE ON FIRE, along with their families (also here illegally), then the rule of law no longer exists.
DHS should put them on a plane to Egypt as soon as they’re done interrogating them.
Egyptair has a code share with United. Denver to Cairo via Rome daily.
Remove funding for the judge and his court in the Big Beautiful Bill.
That’d require the GOPe to put it in there which they would never do.
In fairness this April the GoP HoR did pass the No Rogue Rulings Act of 2025. It has some decent reforms. restricts District Courts rulings to the plaintiffs before them so no 3rd parties or nationwide injunctions, requires a special 3 Judge panel if there are plaintiffs from multiple Circuits to limit forum/judge.shopping.
And how has the GOP Senate handled it?
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Admittedly not well but let’s be willing to give credit where it is due in addition to heaping helpings of scorn and derision when it is due. Since the HoR and Senate rarely earn praise it won’t be a large burden to acknowledge the rare occasions when they do something praiseworthy.
Unfortunately virtually zero chance from Congress.
Might get Congress to limit inferior Court’s powers and restrict District Judges to their own District and Circuits to their own Circuit. They could also make posting bond by plaintiffs in all these resistance lawsuits mandatory/remove Judicial discretion to waive them or effectively waive them by reducing the amounts required. Those are low hanging fruit.
Not low enough for those who crawl on their bellies. Ugh.
“sooner or later”,….how about Trump doesn’t have the balls, which means, “never”
IMO you are incorrect. He and his advisors are being smart strategically and tactically. He’s waiting for the ‘perfect case’, one with great facts for the admin, an unsympathetic plaintiffs making the challenge and a set of circumstances where the Executive Branch Power isn’t really in question and is at an Apex.
If some jackass judge hands him that set of circumstances where he and his team can explain in a simple, easy to understand way how the Judge is attempting to infringe on the power of the Presidency, against Art II of the Constitution and prior precedent he will pull the trigger on telling the Judiciary to pound sand. He’ll call a nationwide Oval Office briefing to tell the public what’s happening and why. Bank on it. So.far the Judges have been clever enough not.to hand him the ‘perfect’ case but if they do…
Yes, I really hope this is the plan. It’s a fight he has to have, but he only gets one bite at this particular cherry; if he picks this fight and loses it, he might as well resign. So he should keep his powder dry until he gets a perfect case, and I hope that’s what he’s doing.
Agreed about the one bite at the apple at least in the first instance the Admin must prevail. Thereafter once the principal is established it gives ‘some’ leeway for using the same arguments on a slightly less clear cut case….but they must get the first one in the W column.
He could have avoided this by simply denying the asylum claim and moving to deport them on the basis of their visa is over and they aren’t getting asylum. I’m a bit annoyed by his choice of avenue (the emergency stuff) for sending them home because it sets up these fights that will get some of these folks let back into the public where they can disappear.
The president can’t just “deny” asylum claims.
Gordon Gallagher, eh? Where’s that “Sledge-O-Matic” when we need it?
Or, JD Delay’s wood chipper.
You should check out the movie ‘Tucker and Dale vs Evil’. It’s a hilarious but underappreciated comedy that puts a great twist on traditional horror movie tropes.
LOL.
Seven friggin people come on a tourist visa, the father laughably claims asylum (the vacation is over!) and declares the six others dependents. So he is illegally issued a work visa by the traitors in the Biden junta … works for a few months as an accountant, leaves and drives a cab. For 6 dependents … Meanwhile, he’s working to kill as many Jews as he can get his grubby little hands on – but the family, who are all illegal, now, knows nothing!!
They have no right to be here. They are not wanted here. There is nothing else that needs to be considered. The court is way out of bounds – not the court’s business in any way. There is no harm in returning a national to his own country. And these, in particular, were just here as tourists. Now, they are sucking our funds and draining our services – not to mention their patriarch is a despicable criminal of the worst sort – and they are not wanted. End of story.
No foreigner has any right to be in America. PERIOD.
He obviously anticipated the consequences to his family since he said he deliberately delayed attacking until after his youngest kid finished high school.
It is not laughable for someone to apply for asylum. It’s deadly serious, and we have laws allowing it for a very good reason. None of us have any idea what grounds he gave, so we have no way of judging whether his application had any merit.
That they arrived on some kind of visa is irrelevant. That is the normal and expected way for asylum applicants to arrive. How else is someone from any country but Mexico and Canada supposed to do it? How do you think most of the Cold War defectors did it?
He was not “illegally issued a work visa”. It was completely legal, since the law gives the president the authority to do that. And if he quit one job to do another, it stands to reason that the second job paid more.
Meanwhile he’s plotting murder, but why on earth would his family know about it? Why would he think to tell them? Why would he take the risk that one of them would blab?
Meanwhile, they were not here as tourists, they were here as asylum applicants. His work permit may have expired, but their asylum application didn’t, at least as far as we know. It would be unjust to deport them merely because of his crime, unless there’s evidence that they were involved. I assume that’s why they were being questioned, so it can be determined whether they were involved.
Always sympathetic towards the monsters.
so we have no way of judging whether his application had any merit
Well, there are only certain valid reasons for asylum to be granted. And we could, reasonably, go down that list and take a surface look at whether they could even remotely be valid. Based on a general knowledge of the sort of thing granting asylum, he is incredibly unlikely to have a valid reason.
You are right in the most legalistic sense – as usual, your pedantry rules. But a reasonable look at the issue provides a pretty likely answer on which we can form reasonable opinions.
How do you think most of the Cold War defectors did it?
A lot of them did so at an American embassy in some other country. Either their home country or some other whence they had escaped.
why on earth would his family know about it?
Because he lives with them and he plotted it for a year. But it is entirely possible he managed to hide it from them. Plenty of people are incredibly dense about their family members. (I’m guessing the wife knew, because I don’t assume she is that stupid.)
they were not here as tourists, they were here as asylum applicants
No. They came here as tourists. THEN they applied for asylum. At least they did that part before they overstayed their visa. But they came here as tourists.
You are mixing up how they came here with how they were here.
How they came here is irrelevant. The only relevant question is how they were here, and that is not as tourists but as asylum applicants.
No, it’s not irrelevant. It might be irrelevant to certain legal issues, but it isn’t irrelevant in terms of policy.
Because tourist visas are NOT supposed to be for the purpose of immigrating.
My understanding is that the normal way for asylum applicants to arrive is for the applicant to contact the American Embassy in their country. Granted, the previous administration decided that anyone detained by ICE in the USA could also apply and go about their business until their hearing some years later. But that’s a controversial policy.
If they’re being persecuted in their country, giving that country notice that they’re planning to seek asylum somewhere else is counterproductive. Do you expect they’ll be allowed to leave, if their government knows what they’re planning?!
Reading comprehension issue?
My understanding is that the normal way for asylum applicants to arrive is for the applicant to contact the American Embassy in their country.
Or just the usual Democrat lies?
You are the filthy liar and slanderer, and are now pretending to have problems comprehending the simplest thing.
What kind of idiot doesn’t understand that contacting the American embassy in their country, means giving their country notice that they’re planning to seek asylum elsewhere? If their government knows what they’re planning, it won’t allow them to leave. That is not a viable way to seek asylum, and it’s certainly not how most Cold War defectors did it.
Brilliant move by another Colorado judge. Let the family of a would-be assassin by arson stay in the US, and grow up to think of their father as a martyr. I’m guessing the Gallagher judge is Catholic, not Jewish. It’s not his kids who are in danger.
They’re in more danger than he realizes. First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people. Ask the Catholics in Paris how safe they feel.
He’s neither. He’s Progressive.
Play the long game, folks.
Or, put another way, play chess while your opponent plays checkers.
Of course the judiciary appears hopelessly biased, making up (bleep) as they go. This terrorist should spend the rest of his life in a little cell at Guantanamo Bay, his family and anyone else connected to their “asylum” should be permanently removed.
But many of these injunctions, etc are being resolved in favor of the White House and I’m sure many more will be as well.
Note well that Mr. Trump is going out of his way to *not* defy court orders. He bloviates about them but stays in his lane. He’s not as dumb as his detractors make him out to be.
He is dumb to put up with these judges,
Not as dumb as we are to put up with JR.
This terrorist should be fed to feral hogs while his family watches.
Every breath he takes is an affront to human decency
Kill him and do so in a manner that has his afterlife taken from him by HIS rules.
I understand prosecuting, convicting, and executing the terrorist. But deporting his family? What if one of your family members was one of the J6 protestors? Would you want all of your family members prosecuted, imprisoned, and then deported? This is what the Nazis did all the time. If you supported the Jews in any way or manner, you were not only killed, but all of your family as well. Is this what we want under Trump’s America?
Nazis didn’t deport to neutral countries. What a retarded comment.
Trump deports them to a country where they will be tortured and killed.
No, he doesn’t. Stop making crap up.
Deporting the family back to their home country of Egypt. I doubt their in any trouble.
These are Egyptian Muslims. Deporting them to Egypt doesn’t result in their torture and death.
You spout idiocy from your squirrel-sized brain, as per usual, wanker.
Dude! C’mon!
Squirrels everywhere demand an apology.
You have no knowledge of the grounds for their asylum application. None of us do. So how can you possibly state with any confidence that Egypt won’t torture or kill them? It’s not as if Egypt were the kind of country that just doesn’t do that.
Shut up, you idiot.
You REALLY should sit this one out, given you Democraps were the ones who let all these bastards in.
You’re right. We should keep them here where they can kill Americans. Moron.
Did you miss the parts where:
1. They’re also here illegally
2. He planned this for a year, and his family never let anyone know
They’re are at the least accessories.
1. As far as has been reported they came legally, applied for asylum legally, and their application has not yet been adjudicated.
2. Why would his family have known anything about his plans?
The article states that his asylum period has EXPIRED. All their VISAS have EXPIRED. The LEGAL PROCESS should be as simple as having a REMOVAL ORDER that states those two facts. If “following the law” is what the “judge” demands, then that should do it!
I seem to recall ANOTHER case making it to the Supreme Court where PRESIDENT TRUMP won his case for the early termination of TPS for over 500,000. So, if the “process” is as stated, once their VISAS and TEMPORARY ASYLUM have expired then a DEPORTATION ORDER should be HONORED – your “honor”!
There is no expiration date on asylum applications.
Such a foolish comment. If the J6 protestor tried to light people on fire and was an illegal alien, then the rest of the family should GO!
Why should they stay? Let’s hear it.
That’s attainder, which the constitution specifically prohibits.
Hmm, “attainder” is prohibited? You mean like when PRESIDENT TRUMP was persecuted by the left for “crimes” no one else had ever been charged with? I think a Bill of Attainder is a law DIRECTED at a specific person or group are guilty and then punished without trial. No one is saying the Family is guilty – they’re being QUESTIONED as you would in ANY TERRORIST ATTACK – what they are saying is their VISAS and ASYLUMS are EXPIRED – DONE – OVER – CAPUT – NYET – so it’s time to leave Our Nation!
I have no objection to their being questioned, but that is NOT what we are discussing. As you well know, we are discussing a claim that if an illegal alien tries to set people on fire the rest of his family should be deported. That by definition is an attainder. It’s corruption of the blood. Not only the constitution prohibits it, but so does the Bible.
As you well know, we are discussing a claim that if an illegal alien tries to set people on fire the rest of his family should be deported.
They’re being deported because they’re illegal aliens.
Not because their relative was a murdering bastard.
They are not illegal aliens. They are legal applicants for asylum, waiting for their applications to be considered. Which they’re entitled to have happen without being affected by their father’s crime.
Quit reading into things that are not there. It makes your comments nonsensical.
What do you mean, that are not there? You wrote that if an illegal alien tries to set people on fire the rest of his family should be deported. That is what attainder means.
Why shouldn’t illegal aliens be deported? If they feel there is a credible fear in Egypt then they can get an option to go elsewhere but one way or another they gotta go. An asylum claim isn’t immunity from deportation even of proven it is only valid against deportation to Nation of origin not a third Nation.
Citizens can’t be deported so any claim, inference or even some hypothetical that they could be is beyond absurd.
You really are a fucking idiot, JR. Muh Nazis.
You appear to be having a hard time selling your P.O.V.
Families of j6ers are not in violation of law, illegal aliens are
They are illegal aliens, not citizens.
Are you retarded? Where would the families of “American” J6 protestors get deported to? Kokomo?
By the way, dumbass, his FAMILY is also here illegally.
You really do need to log out and never come back.
You used a whole month’s worth of your STUPID ALLOTMENT with that post
Ther are illegally present, they should be deported
My family are US citizens, and can’t be deported. Pay attention.
Of course it isn’t. I’d be very unhappy if Trump had them sent to a death camp or even a slave labor camp. I guess I missed the part where that was on the table.
This is NOT a “corruption of blood” issue.
They were here illegally and should be deported on that basis.
However, they are ALSO likely radicalized and should be also kicked out for that reason.
I understand the administration wanted to be seen to be reacting appropriately to this terrorism, by publicly arresting and deporting the whole family.
But did they really have to announce it before they were all gone out of the country? Why allow a court like this to pretend to “preserve jurisdiction”? Just get them out, then say what you did.
Exactly
They keep telling the enemy teller plans!!
To make the Democrats go on record publicly defending the family of a terrorist that tried to burn people alive.
Nope. As we saw with Maryland Man, the Democrats will do this no matter where the illegal ends up. And they look even stupider.
Are they not also here illegally? I understand not wanting to punish them for the literal sins of the father but this seems unclear.
Time to ban Muslims from entering the USA.
“Remaining in”.
Both
A ban on Moslems entering the USA would be constitutional, but would have to be enacted by Congress; the President has no authority to do it.
A ban on Moslems remaining in the USA, or even only alien Moslems, would be unconstitutional.
Biden’s judges hate this country’s guts!
The DOJ should say they will be naturalized at Trump’s insistence. Watch what happens.
When hatred for one person overrides any other consideration, people notice.
It may come to the point that a few judges need to have their blood shed at the tree of liberty.
it needn’t come to that, only takes a president that doesn’t wait for permission from a judiciary to do his job,…in other words, Trump needs to grow a pair and defy this judge
We had plenty of Hanging Judges. Now the universe requires balance.
We need to vote harder.
I forget where I posted this, but I bet that the State of Colorado would brag that their gun control laws stopped Soliman from buying a gun. They are crowing that it did. The Colorado system is linked to the FBI database. The FBI database is used by all states and triggered the rejection for him. In any other state the outcome would be the same. Disingenuous and Democrat are synonymous.
I’m sure the dead and injured people are very thankful they got incinerated and not shot.
Didn’t seem to stop Elias Gonzalez.
You mean Elias Rodriguez? Nothing would have, not even the draconian Illinois firearms laws. I believe Rodriguez is a US native with no prior criminal history. The weapon he used was legally purchased several years ago. He has a current Illinois Firearm Owners Identification Card. He even flew with the weapon properly checked through United Airlines from Chicago to DC.
properly checked through
“Properly” is a yes and a maybe, there. Yes, he did all the right things with the airline and TSA.
But, if he was staying in DC, and the airport was within the confines of Maryland or DC, then it was “proper.” Part of the check-in process is that whether the firearm is legal at your destination (the airport where the firearm comes back into your possession) is on you to determine. (IOW, the airline isn’t responsible, but you’re doing it wrong if you know it’s not legal at your destination airport location.) If he flew into Virginia, he was OK from that aspect.
I’m pretty certain he could not even possess the gun in DC, and I think the same is true in Maryland, now (as an out-of-stater).
Yes, that’s true. He was unquestionably violating DC law by carrying the firearm in DC and Maryland (if he was there at any point). FWIW, you can ‘possess’ a firearm in DC as a non-resident so long as you’re transporting the firearm in a way that it’s not easily accessible and you’re going to or coming from a ‘lawful recreational firearm-related’…which may not even be possible in DC. I don’t think there are any public shooting ranges left in the city limits anymore. Not sure how it works in Maryland.
Washington DC is serviced by IAD and DCA in Virginia and BWI in Maryland. There are no publicly available airports within DC itself.
Mark Steyn noted that a little girl spirited out of Nazi held Europe was fire bombed in Boulder.
Why are we granting MUSLIMS ‘asylum’ from a stable, Muslim-majority democracy? I could understand if the family was some ethno-religious minority, like Christian Copts or Druze, who felt persecuted in an Islamic country. But, they’re Muslims. This is a perfect example of the dysfunction and abuse in our ‘asylum’ system.
Why would we not? Why would the fact that someone is Moslem automatically make them immune from persecution in a Moslem country? Do you seriously imagine that Egypt doesn’t engage in persecution?! Or that it exempts people just because they happen to be Moslem?!
Hayem El Gamal and her five children
Wait, WHAT?!? We all heard about the ONE child. Where did the other four come from? (I mean, I know “where they come from” – I want to know why they have suddenly appeared in reporting.)
deportation without process could work irreparable harm
They’ve already HAD their process. They overstayed their visa. Period. Bye-bye.
I’m not sure why Trump used the emergency powers thing, again. Just deny their asylum claim and deport. Use the powers you’ve already clearly got, instead of dumping them in the bucket that is causing all the trouble.
There are five kids, four under 18 and one 18. The aspiring doctor, who overstayed her tourist visa, is 18.
Yes. It seemed from early reporting that was the only one. My complaint is about the quality of reporting.
No, they have not had any process. They have an asylum application pending, and it has not been dealt with.
The terrorist is the one who applied for asylum.
Not the rest of them. He claimed them as dependents.
His claim has been denied. With fire.
The rest can get the hell out.
The Asylum can be denied under DHS 8 USC 1158:
(2) Exceptions
(A) In general
Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien if the Attorney General determines that-
(i) the alien ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion;
(ii) the alien, having been convicted by a final judgment of a particularly serious crime, constitutes a danger to the community of the United States;
(iii) there are serious reasons for believing that the alien has committed a serious nonpolitical crime outside the United States prior to the arrival of the alien in the United States;
(iv) there are reasonable grounds for regarding the alien as a danger to the security of the United States;
(v) the alien is described in subclause (I), (II), (III), (IV), or (VI) of section 1182(a)(3)(B)(i) of this title or section 1227(a)(4)(B) of this title (relating to terrorist activity), unless, in the case only of an alien described in subclause (IV) of section 1182(a)(3)(B)(i) of this title, the Attorney General determines, in the Attorney General’s discretion, that there are not reasonable grounds for regarding the alien as a danger to the security of the United States; or
(vi) the alien was firmly resettled in another country prior to arriving in the United States.
They could theoretically terminate the asylum under (i). Or, they will terminate under (ii), because he WILL be convicted.
His application can of course be denied. Theirs can’t, at least not just because he’s a criminal. If he’s in danger back in Egypt then they’re likely in danger too.
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