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a brazilian woman with family ties white House Press secretary Caroline Levitt An immigration judge ruled Monday that she will be released from ICE custody while she fights possible deportation.
Bruna Ferreira, 33 years old, long time Massachusetts The resident was previously engaged to Leavitt’s brother, Michael. She was driving to pick up her 11-year-old son in New Hampshire when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested her in Revere, Massachusetts, on November 12.
Ferreira was later taken to a detention center louisianaWhere an immigration judge ordered that he be released on a $1,500 bond, his attorney Todd Pomerleau said.
“We argued that she was not a threat or a flight risk,” he said in a text message. “The government accepted our plea and never once argued that she was a criminal illegal alien and the appeal was waived.”
The Department of Homeland Security had previously called Ferreira a “criminal illegal alien” and said he had been arrested on assault charges, a charge his attorney denied. Neither the department nor the White House press secretary responded to requests for comment on Monday.
Pomerleau said his client came to the U.S. as a child and later enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-era policy that shields immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. She said she was in the process of applying for a green card.
Carolyn Leavitt grew up in New Hampshire, and ran unsuccessfully for Congress from the state in 2022 before becoming Trump’s spokeswoman for his 2024 campaign and later joining him in the White House.