US EditionICE detained family less than two days after court ordered their release
Attorneys said the family was put on a deportation flight despite a judge’s order, and the children had been detained for more than 10 months.
- On Saturday, federal agents re-detained Hayam El Gamal and her five children hours after their Thursday release, prompting U.S. District Judge Fred Biery to grant an emergency motion halting their deportation to Egypt.
- Authorities initially took the family into custody last June after the mother's then-husband, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was charged with a fatal firebombing in Boulder, Colorado; the family has since disavowed him and filed for divorce.
- Held for 10 months at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, the family reported medical neglect and rotting food, with El Gamal requiring emergency care this month for 'fluid around the heart.'
- The Department of Homeland Security criticized the release as coming from an 'activist judge,' while attorneys argued the government's actions violated 'basic constitutional principles of separation of powers.'
- Amid a broader Trump administration campaign to restrict immigration, the family awaits asylum decisions while often defying court orders to pursue removals, marking a pattern critics say violates constitutional constraints.
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Trump admin dealt setback as deportation flight turned around mid-air by judge
by Lomi Kriel, The Texas TribuneApril 25, 2026A flight carrying an Egyptian family to Michigan late Saturday abruptly turned around after a Texas judge ruled that the six should remain in the U.S. pending further litigation.The last-minute reversal was the most recent development in a dizzying series of events this week that attorneys said added to ongoing questions over the executive’s power compared to the judiciary when it comes to President …
Judge blocks ICE from deporting firebombing suspect’s wife, kids after agents rearrest them
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration not to deport the wife and five children of suspected firebomber Mohamed Sabry Soliman after attorneys said they were rearrested hours after their return to Colorado.
New York, Apr 25 (EFE).- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested an Egyptian family that has been held for almost a year, just two days after a federal judge in Texas ordered their release, and is in the process of deporting them, according to their lawyers on Saturday. “Detained again at ICE’s first checkpoint, deportation is imminent, emergency motions were filed,” the legal team representing Hayam El-Gamal and his …
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