The U.S. House on Monday passed a resolution introduced by Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans that condemns the June 1 antisemitic attack on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall by an Egyptian national who was in the country illegally.
Evans, who represents Colorado’s competitive 8th Congressional District, criticized the state’s “radical leftist leaders” in a news release Monday after his resolution passed, saying they have enacted laws that “prioritize illegal immigrants over public safety.”
“The passing of my resolution ensures we condemn all acts of antisemitism and affirms that the free and open collaboration between state and local law enforcement with their federal counterparts is key in preventing future attacks like this,” he said.
All Republicans in Colorado’s congressional delegation voted in favor, except Lauren Boebert, who did not vote.
How is the Colorado congressional delegation voting?
One-hundred-thirteen Democrats, including Colorado’s U.S. Reps. Jason Crow and Diana DeGette, voted against Evans’ measure. The other two Democrats in Colorado’s congressional delegation, U.S. Reps. Brittany Pettersen and Joe Neguse, voted in favor.
DeGette, in a news release, said Evans’ resolution “exploits this incident to demonize migrants, celebrate ICE and ignore the real concerns of Jewish Americans.”
She said she sided with a separate resolution introduced by Neguse that also condemns the attack but doesn’t mention the alleged perpetrator, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the Egyptian national who used Molotov cocktails to injure more than a dozen people — some severely — who were marching along the Pearl Street Mall in solidarity with hostages still being held captive by the militant group Hamas in Gaza.
Soliman faces 118 charges, including dozens of counts of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault.
Neguse’s resolution has not yet received a vote in the House.
A third resolution introduced by New Jersey Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew that condemned the Boulder attack and called for combating antisemitism in the United States passed the House on Monday by a 400-0 vote.
Evans’ resolution lays out the various immigrant violations that authorities say were committed by Soliman, 45, since he first came to the country in 2022. He was living in Colorado Springs when authorities say he drove to Boulder on June 1 and targeted the hostage-advocacy group Run for Their Lives.
The attack, the resolution states, “demonstrates the dangers of not removing from the country aliens who fail to comply with the terms of their visas.” And it “expresses gratitude to law enforcement officers, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, for protecting the homeland.”
The votes on the competing resolutions came after a weekend of increasing violence and chaos in Los Angeles, as protesters demonstrated — and in some cases rioted — in response to federal immigration authorities acting under orders from the Trump administration arresting groups of suspected immigrants on Friday.
Protesters standing above the closed southbound 101 Freeway threw chunks of concrete, rocks, electric scooters and fireworks at California Highway Patrol officers and their vehicles that were parked on the highway. Officers ran under an overpass to take cover.
Nearby, at least four self-driving Waymo cars were set on fire, sending large plumes of black smoke into the sky and exploding intermittently as the electric vehicles burned.
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