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Lawyers say El Gamal family detained by Trump administration hours after returning home from 10-month detention.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n A United States federal court has blocked the administration of United States President Donald Trump from deporting a woman and her five children following their release from immigration detention.<\/p>\n Hayam El Gamal and her five children, ranging in age from five to 18 years old, had been held for 10 months prior to their release earlier this week following a judge\u2019s order. They had been held in detention for the longest of any known family during Trump\u2019s second term in office,<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n But just days after returning to their home in Colorado, immigration authorities again detained the family on Saturday and sought to swiftly deport them, according to their lawyer.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Trump administration has kidnapped the El Gamal family in violation of a federal court order from the Western District of Texas, which ordered them Thursday not to detain or remove the family from the United States,\u201d a statement from the family lawyers, shared by lawyer Eric Lee, said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe attempt to remove the El Gamal family is in violation of a federal court order and must be halted immediately,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n Lee said shortly after that US District Judge Fred Biery, who ordered the family\u2019s initial release on Thursday, had granted an emergency order on Saturday barring their removal.<\/p>\n The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to Al Jazeera\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n The Trump administration has at times flouted court orders barring it from deporting people from the US, pushing a hardline approach that critics say has defied legal constraints.<\/p>\n That has come amid a wider campaign to restrict immigration, legal and illegal, particularly from non-Western countries.<\/p>\n Hayam El Gamal and her children were detained by the Trump administration after her former husband, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, attacked a group of people in Boulder, Colorado, as they gathered in support of Israeli captives held by the Palestinian armed group Hamas in June 2025.<\/p>\n An 82-year-old woman later died from injuries sustained during the incident.<\/p>\n Soliman\u2019s family condemned the attack and denied any knowledge that it was going to take place, with NBC News reporting that El Gamal divorced her husband soon after his arrest.<\/p>\n An FBI agent also testified under oath that there was no evidence that the family, who have not been charged with any crimes, was aware of the father\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n Their nearly yearlong detention by the Trump administration has been described by the family\u2019s lawyers and several lawmakers as an illegal and cruel effort to punish the family for an act they did not commit.<\/p>\n Following Soliman\u2019s arrest, the White House, in a post on X, said it would seek to immediately expel the family, whose lawyers have said are in the process of applying for asylum after coming to the US on tourist visas from Egypt.<\/p>\n \u201cSix One-Way Tickets for Mohamed\u2019s Wife and Five Kids. Final Boarding Call Coming Soon,\u201d the White House post said.<\/p>\n The family has experienced deteriorating health and been denied proper medical care while in detention, according to their lawyers. Earlier in April, El Gamal was hospitalised due to a medical emergency related to an untreated growth on her chest, they said.<\/p>\n Immigration rights groups have noted that it is typically illegal to detain children for extended periods of time.<\/p>\n In a statement earlier this week, US Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat, said the Trump administration\u2019s motives would be clear if they sought to re-detain the family despite the judge\u2019s order to release them.<\/p>\n \u201cIf, despite the judge\u2019s recommendation, the Department of Homeland Security still objects to the release of an innocent woman and her five children, we know exactly why that is the case,\u201d\u00a0Durbin said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is not because they present any danger to the community or a flight risk. It is because they are immigrants \u2013 Arab Muslim immigrants at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Lawyers say El Gamal family detained by Trump administration hours after returning home from 10-month detention. A United States federal court has blocked the administration of United States President Donald Trump from deporting a woman and her five children following their release from immigration detention. 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