Watch how CNN tries to dance around the face that she is an illegal alien who should have left in 1999 but is still here and CNN is trying to make her more American than a Big Mac.
Should we keep her? You judge.
I demand we have a new H-69B visa (H for hottie) visa.
A mother was taken into custody by ICE. Then the public learned of her family tie to the White House
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/ice-karoline-leavitt-family-detained
Should we keep her? You judge.
I demand we have a new H-69B visa (H for hottie) visa.
A mother was taken into custody by ICE. Then the public learned of her family tie to the White House
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/ice-karoline-leavitt-family-detained
Quote:
Bruna Ferreira came to the US from Brazil as a child, and by all accounts, lived a life like any American: playing on the high school tennis team, getting married and divorced, building a small business and helping raise her son.
When she was taken into custody by ICE agents earlier this month as she left her home in a Boston suburb to pick up her son from school, it didn't make headlines: she was another immigrant caught up in President Donald Trump's deportation crackdown, despite having developed strong American roots.
But during her arrest, Ferreira repeatedly told authorities that her son's aunt was the White House press secretary, her sister, Graziela Dos Santos Rodrigues, told the Boston Globe. Her former fianc the father of her 11-year-old son is the brother of Karoline Leavitt.
"I'm sure she tried to just use whatever she could come up with in the moment," Dos Santos Rodrigues told the Globe. "However, it didn't really help very much."
Now, Ferreira's familial connection to Leavitt one of the most prominent voices supporting Trump's deportation push has transformed her into a symbol of how far the immigration crackdown is reaching. It's also provoked debate over her background: the administration has described her as a "criminal illegal alien" who had been arrested for battery, but her lawyers say she has no criminal record and previously had protection from deportation as part of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Ferreira, 33, is now detained in an ICE detention center in Louisiana, facing deportation proceedings. She broke up with her son's father, Leavitt's brother Michael Leavitt, 35, about a decade ago, her sister told the Globe. A source familiar with the situation told CNN that Ferreira and the White House press secretary have not spoken in many years.
Ferreira's attorney, Todd Pomerleau, told CNN's Jim Sciutto on Wednesday, "She's part of the Leavitt family's lives," adding the White House press secretary is Ferreira's son's godmother.
Ferreira came to the US at age six with her parents from Brazil, Dos Santos Rodrigues told the Globe, calling her "more American than she is anything else." Ferreira arrived in the US on a tourist visa that required her to leave the country in 1999, according to a DHS spokesperson.
