Federal agents took the family of Boulder, Colorado, illegal-alien terror suspect Mohammed Sabry Soliman, who confessed to the attack to an FBI agent.
Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem announced the move on X as her department revamped the tipline for turning in illegal alien rapists, murderers, and terrorists. More personnel will answer calls.
The attack in Boulder on Monday, as DHS noted, is more evidence of just how dangerous the Biden administration’s policy of open borders has become for Americans. And Soliman isn’t the only illegal-alien terrorist who landed here on a tourist visa, then overstayed it.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said terrorists and their families will be tracked down and deported.
The federal criminal complaint against Soliman says he attacked at about 2:00 p.m. on Monday. His target: pro-Israel marchers demonstrating for the Israeli hostages in Gaza.
He “threw two lit Molotov cocktails” at protesters. He “yelled ‘Free Palestine!’ and the Molotov cocktails ignited in the crowd of people, causing burn injuries to eight individuals,” the federal hate crimes complaint alleges.
As well, Soliman admitted that “he researched on YouTube how to make Molotov Cocktails, purchased the ingredients to do so, and constructed them,” the complaint says:
He traveled to Boulder, Colorado in his vehicle with the Molotov cocktails and threw two of the cocktails at individuals participating in a pro-Israel gathering. He also stated that he picked up gas at a gas station on the way to Boulder. He stated that he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead. Soliman stated he would do it (conduct an attack) again. He specifically targeted the “Zionist Group” that had gathered in Boulder having learned about the group from an online search.
The anti-Israel Egyptian confessed that he had been planning the attack for a year, but waited to strike until his daughter graduated high school.
Late Monday, DHS officials confirmed that Soliman overstayed a tourist visa. “On 9/29/22, he filed some sort of claim with USCIS [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services], potentially an asylum claim, and on 3/29/23, USCIS under the Biden admin gave him work authorization, which expired on 3/28/25,” Fox News’s Bill Melugin reported.
DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that information on X. Soliman, she said, entered the country on a B-2, which expired in February 2023.
Why Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn’t track down and arrest the Egyptian malcontent is unclear. Then again, ICE certainly can’t arrest and deport all the illegals the Biden administration imported in six months. That aside, the Biden administration didn’t boot him home where belongs when it had the chance.
Result: Molotov cocktail attack against peaceful protesters.
Good thing is, the family is now in custody.
DHS and ICE took Soliman’s family into custody, Noem said. “We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it.”
On that note, Rubio warned that more arrests were ahead:
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.
As well, Noem is fortifying the illegal-alien crime hotline.
“For four years, the Biden Administration allowed millions of unvetted illegal aliens — including terrorists, gang members, and other violent criminals — to pour into our country,” McLaughlin said:
Yesterday’s terrorist attack by a suspect illegally in our country, underscores the importance of getting these illegal aliens out of our country. Secretary Noem is revamping ICE’s illegal alien tip line to devote more resources and personnel to help remove these criminal illegal aliens from our country.
Fox’s Melugin dug into the past and found yet another Egyptian visa overstayer — Hesham Hedayet, who came to the United States in 1992 on a tourist visa.
Officials rejected an asylum application. “Deportation proceedings were supposed to begin against him for overstaying the visa, but the charging document was returned to the US Government as undeliverable mail,” Melugin reported:
Hedayet then filed for adjustment of his status because his wife was a recipient of the diversity visa lottery. Background checks failed to produce any derogatory information, and Hedayet was awarded lawful permanent resident status.
Five years later, he shot two people to death at Israel’s El Al airline counter at Los Angeles International Airport.
Melugin reported that two 9/11 terrorists were visa overstayers. In fact, the number is four, as the Center for Immigration Studies reported a year after the attack.
“At least three of the hijackers — four if Zacarias Moussaoui, who the U.S. government claims was the intended twentieth hijacker, is included — had overstayed their visas and were illegal aliens at the time of the attacks,” CIS reported.
That said, however, immigrants across the board, not just those here on visas, pose a terror threat.
“Foreign-born Islamic terrorists have used almost every conceivable means of entering the country over the last decade,” CIS continued:
They have come as students, tourists, and business visitors. They have also been lawful permanent residents (LPRs) and naturalized U.S. citizens. They have sneaked across the border illegally, arrived as stowaways on ships, used false passports, or been granted amnesty. Terrorists have even exploited America’s humanitarian tradition of welcoming those seeking asylum. At the time they committed their crimes, 16 of the 48 terrorists considered in this analysis were on temporary visas (primarily tourist visas); another 17 were lawful permanent residents or naturalized U.S. citizens; 12 were illegal aliens; and 3 of the 48 had applications for asylum pending.
As The New American reported yesterday, one of the shooters in the 2015 San Bernardino, California, terror attack was a green-card holder. Melugin correctly added that Tafsheen Malik landed here on a K-1 marriage visa.