A girl with household ties to the brother of White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Massachusetts, a Trump administration official confirmed.
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who shares an 11-year-old little one with Michael Leavitt, is at the moment being held at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana, on-line data present.
She was arrested earlier this month in Revere, simply northeast of downtown Boston, after overstaying her visa by 26 years, a supply aware of the case informed New Hampshire ABC affiliate WMUR.
Michael Leavitt, a New Hampshire resident, was as soon as in a relationship with Ferreria, however the couple separated about 10 years in the past, a member of the family informed New Hampshire Public Radio.
The boy lives together with his father and stepmother, Michael Leavitt stated, including that Ferreria has maintained a relationship with the kid.
Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin stated in a press release that Ferreira had beforehand been arrested for battery and is at the moment in removing proceedings. Ferreira, initially from Brazil, reportedly entered the U.S. along with her household as a toddler on a vacationer visa and was required to depart by June 6, 1999.
However in keeping with her legal professional, Todd Pomerleau, Ferreira arrived within the nation below the Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, an Obama-era coverage that permits sure undocumented immigrants delivered to the U.S. as kids to keep away from deportation and acquire work authorization.
He additionally insisted she has “no criminal record whatsoever.”
Talking with WMUR, Pomerleau vehemently denied the allegations: “She’s not a criminal, illegal alien,” he stated. “We’re hearing that said about anyone who’s not a U.S. citizen.”
Pomerlau didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Wednesday morning. A GoFundMe web page arrange by Ferreira’s sister stated she was delivered to the U.S. by their mother and father in December 1988, “when she was just a child.”
Since then, Ferreira has “maintained her legal status through DACA, followed every requirement, and has always strived to do the right thing,” Graziela Dos Santos Rodrigues wrote.
Karoline Leavitt has not commented on the arrest.
