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A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody ...

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Bruna Ferreira, the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew, has been released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Ferreira, who was born in Brazil and still faces possible deportation, was arrested last month on the way to pick up her 11-year-old son.

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-- Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) Dec 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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... Bruna Ferreira, 33, a longtime Massachusetts resident, was previously engaged to Leavitt's brother, Michael. She was driving to pick up their 11-year-old son in New Hampshire when she was arrested by ICE agents in Revere, Massachusetts, on Nov. 12.

Ferreira later was moved to a detention facility in Louisiana, where an immigration judge ordered that she be released on $1,500 bond, her attorney Todd Pomerleau said.

"We argued that she wasn't a danger or a flight risk," he said in a text message. "The government stipulated to our argument and never once argued that she was criminal illegal alien and waived appeal."

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson in an email Monday called Ferreira a "criminal illegal alien" and said she had been arrested for battery, an allegation her attorney denied.

"She will have periodic mandatory check-ins with ICE law enforcement to ensure she is abiding by the terms of her release," the spokesperson said. "The Department of Homeland Security will continue to work to remove all aliens illegally present in the country as quickly as possible."

Pomerleau said his client came to the U.S. as a toddler and 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. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-09 12:15 AM | Reply

OK, now do ...

Student says she was living 'American Dream' before she was deported despite judge's order
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... A 19-year old college student who was deported the week before Thanksgiving after a federal judge blocked her removal said she was handcuffed and later forced to sleep on the floor in a detention center.

"I burst into tears because I couldn't believe it, and spending the night there, sleeping on the floor," Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, speaking from Honduras, told ABC News in an exclusive interview.

Lopez Belloza, who entered the U.S. from Honduras with her family when she was 8 years old, was about to board her flight from Massachusetts to Texas last Friday to surprise her parents for the holiday when immigration authorities detained her. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-09 12:17 AM | Reply

... and please explain once again the ~worst and the violent~ aspect of those being deported?


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-09 12:19 AM | Reply

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