Overview
- Attorneys filed a cache of materials, including children’s letters and drawings, with the Senate Judiciary Committee as evidence of alleged mistreatment at ICE’s Dilley facility.
- Mother Hayam El Gamal and her five children have been held since June 2025, which their lawyer says is the longest family detention at Dilley since its reopening in 2025 despite the roughly 20‑day standard from a federal settlement.
- The family alleges mold and worms in food, cursory or delayed medical care, constant lighting and open curtains, curtailed religious privacy, and deteriorating child mental health, with the youngest reporting nightmares and bed‑wetting.
- DHS records show the family arrived on tourist visas in August 2022, applied for asylum in September 2022, then saw an initial claim denied and a subsequent application without the husband dismissed in December 2025.
- Their detention followed charges against husband Mohamed Sabry Soliman in a June 2025 Boulder attack; he has pleaded not guilty, the family disavows him, DHS leadership said the family’s knowledge was under review, and the Dilley center faces broader scrutiny over recent measles cases and a high‑profile child detention.