Bruna Ferreira, who was released from ICE custody Monday on bond, denies claims that she’s an absentee parent
The Brazilian-born mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew – who was recently detained by US immigration authorities – has rejected the Trump administration’s characterizations of her as an absentee parent.
Bruna Ferreira, who was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in November during a traffic stop in Massachusetts and was being held at a Louisiana detention center, said in an interview with the Washington Post that the White House’s statements that she had never lived with her son or spoken with Leavitt “in many years” were incorrect.
Ferreira, 33, had a relationship with Leavitt’s brother, 35-year-old Michael Leavitt. They had a son, Michael Leavitt Jr, now aged 11.
I’m just surprised ICE releases people.
I think they’re testing the waters with this. The people who are famous enough, or have enough social support demanding they get released, get released because its too much attention, but the people who don’t have a lot of people making noise to get them released, probably aren’t.