"Just before Thanksgiving, news that Bruna Ferreira-mother of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's 11-year-old nephew- was being held by ICE in a Louisiana detention facility shook the White House. Leavitt has been uncharacteristically quiet, and the Department of Homeland Security has tried to paint Ferreira as an absent mother and criminal with a previous arrest for "battery" who Leavitt has barely ever spoken to. But Ferreira has since told the Washington Post that that's all bullshit."
"The 33-year-old has an 11-year-old son with Leavitt's 35-year-old brother, Michael. While they are no longer in a relationship, they were previously engaged and continue to co-parent-despite DHS claiming that Ferreira's never lived with her son and hadn't spoken to Karoline "in years." She told the Post that she was at her son's football game with Leavitt's parents and brother just weeks before her arrest."
Bruna Ferreira was detained by ICE at a Massachusetts traffic stop on November 12 and is being held in a Louisiana detention facility. The Department of Homeland Security has portrayed Ferreira as an absent mother with a prior arrest for battery and claimed she had not lived with her son or spoken to Karoline Leavitt in years. Ferreira and family members dispute that characterization, saying she co-parents her 11-year-old son, attends his sports games, and cares for him daily. Family accounts describe a rough arrest and a GoFundMe to raise legal fees.
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