Author's Summary
A fundraising appeal for Karoline Leavitt's detained relative reached its legal-defense goal, yet the woman remains in ICE custody amid ongoing deportation proceedings. (142 characters)
Key Details
An appeal to support the relative of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in fighting her ICE detention successfully met its legal-defense fundraising target. However, Bruna Caroline Ferreira, the mother of Leavitt's nephew, stayed detained following her arrest.
Background on Detention
Ferreira, a Brazilian national, overstayed her tourist visa that expired in June 1999, leading ICE to label her a "criminal illegal alien" with a prior battery arrest. Agents took her into custody this month in Revere, Massachusetts, while she drove to pick up her 11-year-old son from Leavitt's brother Michael's home in New Hampshire. She now awaits deportation at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center and has not lived with the child, who resides full-time with his father.
Authorities have apprehended the mother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew... as part of heightened immigration enforcement actions during the Trump administration.
Leavitt and Ferreira have not spoken in years, and her attorney hopes Leavitt might influence the president for release, though no comments came from Leavitt.
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