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El Gamal family taken back into ICE custody days after being released

Colorado Springs Gazette·Nick Smith [email protected]·about 1 month ago
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The El Gamals, a Colorado Springs-area family who were released from a Texas immigration facility following a federal judge’s order on Thursday, were detained again by federal agents and put on a private jet in Denver bound for Egypt, attorneys for the family said Saturday. As of early Saturday evening, it was unclear whether Hayam El Gamal and her five children would be allowed to return to the U.S. Federal agents took the El Gamal family, who emigrated from Egypt, to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, in early June 2025, following the arrest of Hayam El Gamal’s then-husband, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, in connection with an antisemitic attack in Boulder. They were detained for 324 days at the immigration facility despite a decades-old federal settlement that states children are not allowed to be detained for more than 20. The family’s attorneys, Eric Lee and Chris Godshall-Bennett, filed an emergency motion Saturday to halt the family’s deportation.…

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