https://www.wcvb.com/article/karoline-leavitt-family-connection-ice-arrest/69547219
"Woman with family connection to White House press secretary arrested by ICE in Revere, Mass."
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REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts, according to WCVB-TV's radio partner WBUR.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has a child with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
WBUR reports Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child, and is now in custody at an ICE facility in Louisiana.
According to a statement provided to WCVB from a source familiar with the matter, Leavitt has not spoken to Ferreira in many years:
"This individual is the mother of Karoline’s nephew and they have not spoken in many years. The child has lived full-time in New Hampshire with his father since he was born. He has never resided with his mother."
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson also released the following statement on Ferreira's arrest:
"ICE arrested Bruna Caroline Ferreria, a criminal illegal alien from Brazil. She has a previous arrest for battery. She entered the U.S. on a B2 tourist visa that required her to depart the U.S. by June 6, 1999," the statement read. "She is currently at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center and is in removal proceedings. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, all individuals unlawfully present in the United States are subject to deportation.”
Karoline Leavitt is a native of New Hampshire and unsuccessfully ran for Congress before becoming White House Press Secretary.
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