Egyptian Family of Six Re-Detained by ICE Days After Release From Texas Facility

Hayam El Gamal and her five children — the Egyptian family freed by federal court order Thursday after more than ten months in Texas detention — were taken back into ICE custody just two days later, according to their attorney Eric Lee. By Saturday morning the family had been put on a private jet in Denver bound for Egypt, with the government citing an alleged court-order violation. The family was originally detained in connection with the husband’s separate criminal case, in which he allegedly threw molotov cocktails at a crowd; their ten-plus-month confinement had become the longest family detention of Donald Trump’s second term.