The Trump administration pushes its deportation goal by using the status of a Colorado suspect.

The Trump administration's deportation goal has been further fueled by the immigration status of the man who allegedly attacked participants at an event for Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado, using an improvised flamethrower and other incendiary devices.

The US government claims that 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who entered the country from Egypt in 2022 and overstayed his original tourist visa, planned his attack on the event with the express intent of targeting Zionists, according to federal authorities. He was charged with a federal hate crime on Monday after yelling "Free Palestine" during the attack, which the FBI has described as a "act of terrorism."

The attack is already being utilized by the right to rally support for further deportations and combines two common foes of the right: illegal immigration and anti-Israel discourse and deeds. The reaction contrasts with the conservative response to the conflict in Gaza and the right's response to attacks on Muslims and Palestinians in the United States. Deportations of college students have also been justified by the Trump administration's support for Palestinians.

Right-wing publication The Gateway Pundit is calling Soliman "Biden's Illegal Alien from Egypt." Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, said that a "illegal alien" was responsible for the "terror attack."

"The Biden Administration gave him a tourist visa, which he then unlawfully overstayed. Miller posted on X, "The Biden Administration responded by issuing him a work permit." "It is necessary to completely reverse suicidal migration."

Trump attributed the incident to Biden's "ridiculous Open Border Policy" in a post on Truth Social.

Trump wrote, "He must go out under 'TRUMP' Policy." Terrorism-related offenses will be pursued to the utmost degree permitted by law. This is just one more illustration of the need to secure our borders and exclude illegal, anti-American radicals from our country.

Colorado was the scene of the attack shortly after the Trump administration designated the state and numerous counties and cities, including Boulder, as "sanctuary" jurisdictions that would not assist law enforcement in deportation efforts. The list was later taken down due to opposition from the locations it included. These measures have been mentioned in the attack's right-wing reportage.

The attack, according to some right-wing pundits, highlighted the need for limitations akin to the Muslim travel ban that Trump tried during his first term. (It is unclear what religion Soliman practices.)

Laura Loomer, a right-wing commenter on X, stated, "Notice how the GOP narrative around Mohamed Soliman is that he is a 'illegal alien,'" in one of several postings advocating for a crackdown on "Islamic terrorism." "The GOP is misleading us into caring exclusively about Soliman's immigration status rather than his Islamic beliefs, which are more problematic in relation to the terrorist attack's MOTIVE."

Although the first shooting in DC was carried out by a US citizen and did not lead to calls for more deportations, this was the second recent attack in which the perpetrator demanded a free Palestine. These assaults coincide with an increase in support for the use of violence to further political objectives, particularly in relation to the war in Gaza.

Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than inhabitants of the United States, according to studies. A webpage detailing how illegal persons are less likely to commit crimes was recently removed by the National Institute of Justice; according to a notice, it is one of many websites and materials being examined for conformity with Trump executive orders.

According to an NIJ study, some studies do not distinguish between documented and undocumented immigrants when calculating crime rates because the data can be challenging to interpret. However, according to this study, which examined Texas criminal records from 2012 to 2018, undocumented immigrants "had the lowest offending rates" in contrast to the highest rates among US-born citizens and documented immigrants.