U.S. Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem testifies earlier than the Home Appropriations Homeland Safety Subcommittee listening to on oversight of the Division of Homeland Safety, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Could 6, 2025.
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Federal immigration brokers on Tuesday took into custody the household of Mohamed Soliman, the person accused of tried homicide within the fireplace assault on demonstrators in Colorado over the weekend, Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem stated.
The White Home’s official X account tweeted concerning the household’s detention and wrote, “THEY COULD BE DEPORTED AS EARLY AS TONIGHT.”
In a subsequent put up, the White Home stated, “Six One-Means Tickets for Mohamed’s Spouse and 5 Youngsters. Last Boarding Name Coming Quickly.”
Noem stated authorities are investigating whether or not Soliman’s household knew about or supported Sunday’s assault by the 45-year-old Egyptian nationwide in Boulder on a gaggle calling for the discharge of Israeli hostages by the militant group Hamas.
Soliman is married with 5 youngsters. The household lives in Colorado Springs.
“In the present day, @DHSgov and @ICEGov are taking the household of suspected Boulder, Colorado terrorist, and unlawful alien, Mohamed Soliman, into ICE custody,” Noem stated in her put up on X.
Boulder assault suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman poses for a jail reserving {photograph} after his arrest in Boulder, Colorado, on June 2, 2025.
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“This terrorist might be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the regulation. We’re investigating to what extent his household knew about this heinous assault, if that they had information of it, or in the event that they offered help to it,” Noem wrote.
“I’m persevering with to wish for the victims of this assault and their households. Justice might be served.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday had warned, “In mild of yesterday’s horrific assault [n Colorado], all terrorists, their members of the family, and terrorist sympathizers right here on a visa ought to know that underneath the Trump Administration we’ll discover you, revoke your visa, and deport you.”
Soliman entered the U.S. legally in August 2022 on a visa that’s usually issued to vacationers, and utilized for asylum the following month, in keeping with the Division of Homeland Safety, NBC Information reported.
The visa expired in February 2023, however Soliman has not exhausted authorized efforts to stay within the U.S., in keeping with NBC.
Court docket paperwork say Soliman instructed authorities he had plotted Sunday’s assault for a yr, and that he waited to execute it till after his daughter graduated from college.
Soliman allegedly yelled “Free Palestine!” when he attacked the demonstrators with a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, sending eight of them to the hospital with burns.
He’s charged in state court docket with a number of counts of tried homicide, assault and possession of an incendiary system. He’s being held on $10 million bond in that case.
Soliman can be charged in federal court docket with a hate crime associated to him focusing on the group due to their faith or ethnicity.
Soliman instructed authorities after his arrest that he “wished all of them to die,” in keeping with Colorado Appearing U.S. Legal professional J. Bishop Grewell.
“He had no regrets, and he would return and do it once more,” Grewell stated.
