Federal immigration authorities on Tuesday detained the wife and five children of the suspect accused of burning a dozen people in a terror attack on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced in a video posted on social media.

The family of Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, was placed in expedited removal proceedings and “could be deported as early as tonight,” the White House said in a social-media statement Tuesday afternoon.

Soliman, an Egyptian immigrant who was living in the U.S. illegally after overstaying a tourist visa, is facing dozens of state criminal charges as well as a federal hate crime count in connection with Sunday’s attack, which has shaken Colorado’s Jewish community.

Federal immigration authorities on Tuesday detained the wife and five

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