A federal judge issued an order Wednesday to prevent the deportation of the wife and five children of an Egyptian man charged in the weekend firebombing attack in Boulder.

U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher granted a request from the family of Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, to halt deportation proceedings of his wife and children who were taken into federal custody Tuesday by U.S. immigration officials.

“Defendants SHALL NOT REMOVE Hayem El Gamal and her five children from the District of Colorado or the United States unless or until this Court or the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit vacates this order,” Gallagher wrote in the order, issued at 2:01 p.m.

The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday confirmed officials detained Soliman’s wife, Hayam Salah Alsaid Ahmed El Gamal,

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