In the case of the pending deportation of the Colorado flamethrower’s family, the plot thickens
And thickens and thickens … and at this point is clear as mud:
In an emergency ruling, a Biden administration-appointed federal judge in Colorado halted the deportation of the wife and five children of Mohamed Soliman, the Egyptian national under federal investigation for the Boulder firebombing attack on Sunday.
The temporary restraining order (TRO), issued by U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher, prevents federal immigration authorities from removing Soliman’s wife, Hayem El Gamal, and the couple’s five children from the country — at least for now. …
The order came after El Gamal’s friend, Susanna Dvortsin, sought emergency legal protection for the family. She argued that the family faced imminent deportation by the Trump administration without the opportunity to present their case in court.
Gallagher agreed, writing that the family’s deportation would cause “irreparable harm.”
So let’s see if I have this right – and I may not, because the reporting on this so far has been abysmal. The flamethrower Solamin and his wife and children came here on a tourist visa (or visas), good for six months, and that expired in August of 2023. Somewhere along the line someone – Solamin, the wife, the kids? – supposedly applied for asylum and that hearing has never happened (and I have no idea whether one is scheduled and if so how many years from now it’s supposed to happen). Meanwhile, Dad of the Year Solamin decided that, while he waited, it would be a great idea to fire away (literally) at some people who were part of a group calling attention to the plight of the Israeli hostages.
It seems to me that this particular family circle has forfeited any right to be in this country, if they even still had such a right after August of 2023. Judge Gallagher may find that their deportation would cause “irreparable harm,” but I think a more solid argument can be made that their remaining here would cause irreparable harm in the sense of giving out the message to the world that a person can come on a tourist visa, let that visa expire, and stay here no matter what as long as there’s been a request for asylum (bogus or not – and I’m going to assume theirs is likely bogus).
On the other hand, their deportation is only stayed until June 13, when a fuller hearing on the matter is scheduled.
And there’s also the statement that it was the wife’s friend who petitioned the court. Dvortsin is an immigrant lawyer. Is El Gamal her client or her friend, or both? The article adds that it was Dvortsin who had submitted the family’s asylum application. Did she do this in her capacity as their lawyer or as their friend? And when was the application made?
Looking at the court document about the stay of deportation, I see this:
The court finds it appropriate for these preliminary proceedings for Petitioner to proceed as next-friend because the filings indicate that there is no means to contact Hayem El Gamal and petitioner has a significant relationship to her.
Is that relationship “lawyer”? If so, why not say so? And why oh why is there no means to contact El Gamal? Surely she has had a phone or an address; the family has been living here for years. Is she in hiding? What on earth is going on here?
What’s more, “next friend” status, in the legal sense, ordinarily means that the person who would otherwise be the petitioner lacks legal capacity, either due to being a minor or being handicapped or being temporarily incapacitated by illness.
Just to cap it all off, Dvortsin was suspended from practicing law in South Dakota for 115 days back in 2019, due to “misconduct concerning an immigration matter.”
Sometimes it seems like we need to expand the “wait three days for the dust to settle” rule to three weeks, due to the difficulty of getting information from the people who have it, and the alacrity with which other people jump in to obfuscate it (looking at you, District Judges, who are rapidly surpassing the Regime Media as water carriers for the Democrats).
It’s discrediting the judicial system as extremely biased.
I had wondered why the terrorist was shirtless.
He was also careless.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/04/us-news/colorado-terror-suspect-mohamed-sabry-soliman-accidentally-set-himself-on-fire-before-attack-video/
https://babylonbee.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-deportation-of-terrorists-family-orders-jews-lit-back-on-fire
As you know, it says somewhere in the constitution that President Trump has to get the federal judges’ approval before he does anything.
Ray
So? Deport them.
The Federal District Court system was established by the US Congress (Judiciary Act of 1789).
I don’t think that it was ever the intent of Congress when establishing this system, that one judge could issue a ruling that applied over all of the USA and the executive branch of the govt.
The dumpublicans in Congress should pass legislation (or at least try to do something about this unconstitutional usurpation of power and authority) to reign in the power of these district courts.
The way things presently stand, a district court judge wields the authority and power of a dictator.
And what is to stop the Trump administration from “judge shopping” to obtain a ruling they favor?
What if they find a judge that issues a ruling 180 degrees opposite to one that restrains/prevents a Trump policy?
The Federal district court system has become nothing more than a power grabbing, unaccountable “agency” that is accountable to no one.
And as usual, the dumbpublicans in Congress are sitting on their thumbs doing nothing about this.
Unbelievable.
Likewise
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1930395087172727004
I think they did pass such legislation out of committee but it take 60 votes to get it passed in the senate
There is also the hedayet shooting of the el al counter in 97 if memory served by another egyptian
Some people aggressively miss the point i guess that is a requirement of being on the editorial board
https://x.com/omriceren/status/1930254443510997291
That is megan mcardle, ignoring what her own paper has done
As far as “ no means to contact” I have read (for what that’s worth) that the family is in ICE custody. I assume that means detained somewhere. I think, especially if this ‘friend’ is their lawyer, she can certainly be contacted by the lawyer and/or the court.
Alleged its on film
https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1930514189287670142
Jeffrey sachs chimes in because he was the architect of this plan in the first place back in 2008
https://x.com/charlescwcooke/status/1930607013777600989
Thanks for posting.
Will share.
I’m curious about what type of work the father was doing in Kuwait when the family applied for their visas. Does anyone know? The least expensive r/t ticket from Kuwait to Denver is about $1200, so that’s $8400, in addition to having to show an itinerary and accommodations. One of the 1st questions an adjudicating officer asks in a non-immigrant visa (NIV) interview is how the applicant(s) will pay for the travel? It’s a method they are taught to discern if the applicant intends (and has reason) to return after the travel to the US. It goes to the app’s ties to their country. And in this case, as the adjudicating officer I would be very suspicious about a family native of one country (Egypt) living in another country (Kuwait). What was his work, income, and ties to the country where the interview took place that justified such an expensive trip to the US?
I said in another article here that I would like for the officer’s case notes to be made public. Unless this man had very strong income and ties in that country that haven’t been reported in the media, he (and his family) was a textbook visa denial. When I went through consular training many years ago we were taught that an NIV interview BEGINS with NO and the applicant must have a convincing case to move it to YES.
Something about this smells like Biden-world right from the start. Interview guidelines do vary according to the mindset of the administration in charge. I’d like to know the interview guidelines from the Biden-era Consular Affairs (CA). Everything else about that rotten, corrupt group’s immigration policies was designed to destroy our country. Why not this, too?
Telemachus — I would bet that the interview guidelines under the Biden Administration were “Are they breathing? If yes, issue visa.”
The No Border Marxist dream to clog the system having every deportation turned into a Judiciary involvement.
Ah yes, the purity of immigration attorneys-I remember it well. I lived in San Francisco for several years and worked in a large office building in the center of downtown. This building had several floors of immigration attorneys as tenants. It also had a cafeteria downstairs in the basement. A place where employees would bring their lunches and buy juice or soft drinks. Just an hour away fromt the office upstairs. Of course there were offices rented to other individuals. I worked in one of those offices and frequently took my lunch downstairs for a time away from work. I started sitting with a group of women who were legal assistants in the offices of two diffrent immigration attorneys. These gals would sit at lunch and compare notes–something like this–“my attorney got a Chinese drug dealer into country it cost and extra $5,000.” “Oh really, my attorney couldn’t get that Lebanese couple in no matter how hard we worked over the immigration offices”, etc.,etc.etc. What I am trying to explain here is that waay back fifty years ago some US Customs (Immigration) officers were available for sale. That the attorneys in these two seperate law offices compared notes as to how much bribe money had to be paid to who for who.
As far as I can tell, the Boulder perp brought his wife and 5 kids here on a tourist visa, and then overstayed it, making all 7 of them here illegally. Then one of the parents filed for asylum. Not sure if it was before or after the end of the tourist visas. Very likely it was the husband (Boulder Perp) filing. First, they are Muslim, and secondly, she is unlikely to have a background that could be leveraged into asylum. The filing for asylum froze their immigration status for the entire family, and kept all 7 from being deported. Likely, they were given a hearing date years in the future (which is how the Biden Administration, along with their NGOs advising illegals, were operating, with hearings being set a decade out in some cases ). The US has engaging in Terrorism as grounds for rejecting his asylum bid, and once they have, bye-bye for the rest of the family, who had presumably been piggybacking on his Asylum request.
And what is going to be interesting is that whether Asylum seekers, and the family piggybacking on their Asylum request can be held pending their Asylum hearing, or allowed to remain outside custody, presumably on some type (possibly personal recognizance- it was Biden) bond, at the discretion of the govt. Since he violated the terms of his/their release (by committing criminal acts and in terrorism), AND release is in the discretion of the Executive Branch, his family is exactly where they belong – in custody. The (Biden nominated) judge is going to have a hard time getting them legitimately out of govt custody. Also, the oldest boy appears to have aged out of his father’s Asylum deportation stay. They all could probably file for Asylum on their own, but they are Egyptian (a quasi ally), so it’s going to be hard for the 6 of them to make a credible case. Oh, and the CO judge won’t have jurisdiction over any of this – that belongs with an Article II case.
After many years the brits finally deported Abu Hamza, the hook handed iman of the notorious Finsbury Park mosque, who recruited the likes of djamal Beghal, who in turn recruited the Paris Metro bombers, but it took a long time, similarly with Soliman, or other figures like Jaber who lives conspicuously in New York, because they could all pretend to be politically persecuted back home, well thats the point,
JohnTyler, the House passed a bill to limit nationwide injunctions lin April 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Wednesday mostly along party lines that limits the authority of federal district judges to issue nationwide orders, as Republicans react to several court rulings against the Trump administration.
https://apnews.com/article/gop-bill-district-court-injunction-trump-doge-764231e50ae5e7119a8bdc9c0d7daf89
Apparently the bill can be filibustered in the Senate so the Democrats will block it.
The Republicans also put a provision in the non-filibusterable BBB
“ The House’s budget reconciliation bill contains a provision (Section 70302) that limits federal judges’ ability to enforce contempt citations for non-compliance with temporary restraining orders or preliminary injunctions, unless security is posted by the party seeking the order. This provision aims to curtail the power of judges to hold individuals in contempt and enforce their rulings, potentially impacting the ability of courts to effectively enforce court orders.”
The DOJ brought a case before the Supreme Court to try to get them to rule on the judges
So you are wrong. The Republicans are addressing the problem.