A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily barred the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of Mohamed Soliman , the Egyptian national accused of attacking a group of demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado , with a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails.

The order blocking the removal of Soliman's family came a day after they were taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and as the Department of Homeland Security said that ICE was processing the family for removal proceedings from the United States.

The White House's official X account tweeted about the family's detention Tuesday, writing, "THEY COULD BE DEPORTED AS EARLY AS TONIGHT."

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