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Judge Orders Immediate Release of Egyptian Mother and Five Children From Texas ICE Facility

The decision sets up a likely Fifth Circuit fight over due‑process limits on prolonged family detention.

The badge of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is embroidered on a polo shirt of an ICE employee, at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement two-day job fair in Texas to help fill vacancies for deportation officers and attorneys, in Arlington, Texas, U.S. August 26, 2025. REUTERS/Shelby Tauber
FILE -The ICE South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, is seen, Aug. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Overview

  • U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ordered the family’s immediate release on Thursday in San Antonio and rejected a government request to postpone the ruling.
  • The order requires electronic ankle monitors for Hayam El Gamal and her 18-year-old daughter and regular reporting to immigration authorities.
  • Justice Department lawyers filed objections and DHS condemned the decision, and the administration is expected to seek Fifth Circuit review that could stay the order.
  • The family has been held in Dilley since June 2025 after the father’s arrest in the Boulder firebombing, and the FBI has said the mother and children were not implicated and cooperated.
  • The ruling does not resolve their status, so their asylum case continues in immigration court as lawyers cite urgent medical concerns for El Gamal and harm to the children from prolonged detention.