Overview
- The family, ordered freed Thursday by U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, must wear electronic monitors and follow reporting rules after roughly 10 months at the Dilley family facility.
- DHS condemned the ruling and is expected to seek review in the Fifth Circuit, and Biery refused to delay the release when government lawyers asked in court.
- Their detention began days after the father, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was charged in the Boulder firebombing that injured more than a dozen and preceded an 82-year-old woman’s death, though the FBI has said it found no evidence tying the family to the attack.
- U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Chestney had recommended release earlier this week, saying the government failed to show danger or flight risk and warning that further detention risked constitutional violations.
- The family’s asylum and removal cases continue, while lawyers cite the mother’s worsening chest pain and the children’s depression as examples of the human toll of prolonged confinement at Dilley, the nation’s primary ICE site for parents and children.