TUESDAY: Was the Boulder assailant an "illegal immigrant?"

TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2025

As always, it depends: Mohamed Sabry Soliman was apprehended on the spot. It seems that he has confessed to—or perhaps, "has taken credit for"—the vicious assaults in Boulder. 

In that sense, he seems to remain a "suspect" in name only. That said, a lot is still unknown about this now-famous man. 

Let's start with an obvious question—what was his legal status? As with almost everything else, that partly depends on your tolerance for our society's endless complexifications. 

Needless to say, it also depends on where you go for your information, or for what passes for same.

What was Soliman's legal status? It depends on where you get your news. For starters, consider this part of this New York Times news report:

Attack Suspect Appeared to Live a Low-Key Life in Colorado Springs

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According to the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Soliman had come to the United States in August 2022 on a tourist visa and overstayed it. He had also applied for asylum and received a work permit that later expired.

Should he have left the country when his work permit expired, even though his asylum request hadn't been resolved? The Times report didn't say.

Few readers will know how to answer that question. By way of contrast, here's what the Washington Post said in this top-of-the-website report:

Suspect in Colorado attack on Israeli hostage event charged with hate crime

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Based on DHS’s information, Soliman didn’t have legal status but was also lawfully present in the U.S., said Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute. “This is a semantics issue at some level,” Chishti said. “He didn’t have legal status, but he was not removable because he was an asylum applicant.”

According to the Post, Soliman didn't have legal status, but he was lawfully present! It's partly a matter of semantics, the migration specialist said!

Meanwhile, on this morning's Fox & Friends, the friends were delivering the mail. Right at the start of the 6 o'clock hour, newsreader Madeleine Rivera told Red America this:

RIVERA (6/3/25): DHS says he's an Egyptian national who was in the country illegally. He entered the country on a tourist visa in 2022 and applied for asylum the next month. He was given work authorization in March 2023 under the Biden administration but that has since expired

On Fox, Soliman "was in the country illegally." Once Rivera ended her brief report, the friends took over from there.

Such complexifications dog every part of modern American governance. When no one really understands how any part of our "system" works, that can encourage some people to seek the relative simplicity of rule under the direction of one strong and trusted leader.

What was Soliman's legal status? It seems you can take your pick!  Meanwhile, on Fox & Friends, the grievance mongering was instant. Here was Rachel Campos-Duffy, bashing the Boulder police in the mandated way at 6:04 a.m.:

CAMPOS-DUFFY (6/3/25): The interesting thing is, the local police are saying, "Well, we're going to wait and figure out what this actually is," when he—as you said—yelled out what his political motives were. We just saw two innocent people die in Washington, D.C., that beautiful couple, for the same reason.

Campos-Duffy was pimping the instant grievance according to which the Boulder police are just so "woke" that they refuse to come to terms with the obvious.

She was still selling that mandated grievance this morning—but how strange! Last night, in the 7 o'clock hour, we had seen the Boulder chief of police tell Erin Burnett this:

BURNETT (6/2/25): Out front now, Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn. And Chief Redfearn, I really appreciate your time tonight.

We're learning a lot more now about the planning that went into this attack. I mean, what are you able to share about the planning and how much worse, frankly, this incident was intended to be?

CHIEF REDFEARN: Yeah. So, we know now that this suspect planned this terror attack for over a year. And of concern is, as you might have heard in the press conference, he attempted to purchase a firearm. I am so grateful that that didn't happen. I cant imagine how much worse this would be if he was able to do that. And so, it's very clear he was intent on harming people. And I'm just glad that we were able to get there relatively quickly and contain this before it was worse.

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BURNETT: In your press conference right after the attack, I know you said that you're not calling it a terror attack at this point. Those were your words, Chief.

Now that you know more about the motive, right, you've got more information. Are you comfortable calling this a terror attack?

REDFEARN: Absolutely. And I just want to say to that, you know, we did that press briefing very early on. There were so many moving parts. I was not comfortable in that initial briefing, even though we had a really good idea that it was going to be called terrorism. It was, it was a targeted terrorist attack. 

We were being very careful at that point because at that point, we were still interviewing the suspect, interviewing multiple victims and witnesses, and we did not want to put out something that was inaccurate. 

We were being very cautious at that. And obviously that changed the later press conference in the evening. We were very clear that we believe this was indeed terrorism. And I still stand with that.

In the initial briefing, he "didn't want to put out something that was inaccurate." Such scruples rarely get in the way of the corporate mission on programs like Fox & Friends.

Two final points:

Last evening, on the Gutfeld! show, the pleasing claim was being floated that "the media" were disappearing this event. When we arose this morning, news reports about this event topped the web sites of the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Sadly, also this:

For whatever reason, last night's Gutfeld! was rank with slimy, old school gay bashing. As always. Governor Walz was just another simpering, unmanly gay guy. So was Senator Booker.

So is Barack Obama, of course. Meanwhile, his wife (and many other liberal women) are just way too much like men. On The View, the women they are all too fat, like horses, cattle, hogs

Last night's show was especially slimy on the purse-lipped, simpering gay stereotype front. Each night, at 10 p.m. Suzanne Scott pries the lid off the can and this is what slithers out.

Blue America has agreed not to notice or mention any of this. Simply put, but unmistakably, this is the failure to serve our Blue elites have chosen.