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Bruna Ferreira’s 11-year-old son lives with her former fiancé, Michael Leavitt, in New Hampshire, but they have shared custody and have maintained a co-parenting relationship for years since their engagement ended.
A Massachusetts woman who was once engaged to the brother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt remains in ICE custody two weeks after being arrested on her way to pick up the son she shares with her former fiancé.
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was driving to her son’s school in New Hampshire on Nov. 12 when she was pulled over in Revere, Massachusetts, her attorney, Todd Pomerleau, said Wednesday.
“She wasn’t told why she was detained,” he said. “She was bounced from Massachusetts, to New Hampshire, to Vermont, to Louisiana on this unconstitutional merry-go-round.”
Pomerleau said Ferreira’s 11-year-old son lives with her former fiancé, Michael Leavitt, in New Hampshire, but they have shared custody and maintained a co-parenting relationship for many years since their engagement broke off.
“She was detained for no reason at all. She’s not dangerous. She’s not a flight risk. She’s not a criminal illegal alien,” he said. “She’s a business owner who pays taxes and has a child who was wondering where mommy was after school two weeks ago.”
Michael Leavitt did not respond to a message sent to his workplace. The White House press secretary declined comment. Karoline Leavitt grew up in New Hampshire, and made an unsuccessful run for Congress from the state in 2022 before becoming Trump’s spokesperson for his 2024 campaign and later joining him at the White House.
Pomerleau said his client was 2 or 3 when she and her family came to the U.S. from Brazil, and she later enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Obama-era policy that shields immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. He said she was in the process of applying for a green card. --->READ MORE HERE
The “criminal illegal alien” mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew has been detained by federal immigration officials in Massachusetts.
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, a Brazilian native, was taken into custody earlier this month in Revere, Mass., near Boston, after overstaying a tourist visa, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Ferreira is a “criminal illegal alien” who had a previous arrest on suspicion of battery, a DHS spokesperson told NBC News.
It is not clear how the case was resolved and The Post could not independently confirm the alleged charge. The DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“She entered the US on a B2 tourist visa that required her to depart the US by June 6, 1999,” the spokesperson told NBC.
“She is currently at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center and is in removal proceedings. Under President Trump and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem, all individuals unlawfully present in the United States are subject to deportation.”
Ferreira shares an 11-year-old son with Leavitt’s older brother, Michael. The couple were previously engaged and have joint custody, according to her attorney, Todd Pomerleau.
Ferreira was arrested while driving to pick up her son from New Hampshire, where he lives with his father, Pomerleau told CNN.
Karoline Leavitt, the country’s youngest White House press secretary at 28, doesn’t have a relationship with Ferreira, and the two women had not spoken in many years, a source told WMUR. --->READ MORE HERE
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