U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials took the wife and five children of Mohamed Sabry Soliman into custody on Tuesday after the Egyptian national carried out a “targeted terror attack” that left 12 individuals injured at a pro-Israel event in Boulder, Colorado.
According to The Independent, the 45-year-old illegal immigrant injured 12 individuals on Sunday who were holding a demonstration to raise awareness for the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza. The outlet noted that Soliman used a “makeshift flamethrower” and threw Molotov cocktails at the pro-Israel activists while shouting “Free Palestine!” and End Zionist!”
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel announced that Sunday’s incident in Colorado was being investigated as a “targeted terror attack.”
In a video message shared on X, formerly Twitter, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Tuesday that ICE was taking the terror attack suspect’s family into custody.
“Today, @DHSgov and @ICEGov are taking the family of suspected Boulder, Colorado terrorist, and illegal alien, Mohamed Soliman, into ICE custody,” Noem tweeted.
In the video, Noem said, “Mohamed’s despicable actions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but we’re also investigating to what extent his family knew about this horrific attack, if they had any knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it. I am continuing to pray for the victims of this attack and for all of their families. Our thoughts and our prayers go out to all of them, and I want them to know that justice will be served.”
The New York Post cited sources on Tuesday who claimed that Soliman’s family’s visa status was revoked and that the family was in custody at a Dilley detention facility located in southern Texas. The sources claimed that federal law enforcement officials plan to use expedited removal to deport the terror attack’s family.
Tuesday’s ICE arrests come just one day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a warning to terrorists, terrorist families, and terrorist sympathizers in the United States. The secretary of state warned, “In light of yesterday’s horrific attack, all terrorists, their family members, and terrorist sympathizers here on a visa should know that under the Trump Administration we will find you, revoke your visa, and deport you.”
