A plane carrying six members of the Egyptian family released from a Texas immigration detention facility this week\u00a0turned around and was flying back to Colorado on Saturday, the family\u2019s attorney said in a post in social media.<\/p>\n
The El Gamal family, released Thursday,\u00a0had been detained again early\u00a0Saturday by immigration agents\u00a0and was in the process of being deported when a judge halted the effort, the family\u2019s attorney, Eric Lee, said.\u00a0But Lee cautioned that the situation is fluid and the family isn\u2019t in the clear yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe El\u00a0Gamal’s deportation flight has turned around and is returning to Denver,\u201d he posted. \u201cWe are told the family will be released, but we don’t trust a word (federal officials) say.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hours earlier, Lee posted on X to say an emergency halt of the deportation order was granted and that the family’s flight out of Colorado was to land before leaving the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cFederal Court grants our Emergency Motion stopping (President) Trump from illegally deporting El\u00a0Gamal family. The plane is landing in Michigan in an hour. It constitutionally cannot be allowed to take off,\u201d attorney Eric Lee posted on X.<\/p>\n
The El\u00a0Gamal family was ordered released Thursday by a federal district judge after being detained since June at the Dilley detention facility. They traveled to Colorado after their release to reunite with the community they\u2019ve known since arriving in the United States in 2022. They were detained again Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are being removed on a private jet,\u201d Lee told the Houston Chronicle earlier Saturday.<\/p>\n