Trump blames Boulder attack, allegedly by illegal alien, on Biden border policy

Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent.

US President Donald Trump blames the attack on hostage protesters in Colorado on his predecessor Joe Biden’s border policy, asserting such attacks “will not be tolerated.”

The alleged attacker, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is an illegal alien in the US, the Department of Homeland Security says. Soliman entered the US on a nonimmigrant visa in 2022, during Biden’s tenure, and stayed after the visa expired.

“He came in through Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Policy, which has hurt our Country so badly. He must go out under ‘TRUMP’ Policy,” Trump says in a statement on Truth Social.

“Acts of Terrorism will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law. This is yet another example of why we must keep our Borders SECURE, and deport Illegal, Anti-American Radicals from our Homeland. My heart goes out to the victims of this terrible tragedy,” Trump says.

The statement does not mention antisemitism or Israel.

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