A US immigration Judge ordered the release of Bruna Ferreira, the mother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, from ICE detention in Louisiana on Monday after she was arrested last month in New Hampshire.
Judge Cynthia Goodman, who was appointed as an immigration judge in 2023 under the Biden administration, set Ferreira’s bond at $1,500 as the woman fights deportation proceedings.
Video, obtained by TMZ, shows Ferreira boxed into a parking lot while driving her silver sedan last month.
Agents then approach her car, slap the cuffs on her, and drive off.
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The Washington Post reports:
Immigration Judge Cynthia Goodman ordered Ferreira to be set free on the lowest-dollar bond possible, Ferreira’s lawyers said. One of those lawyers, Jason Thomas, told Goodman that the U.S. government’s characterization of Ferreira — whom the Trump administration described last month as a “criminal illegal alien” with a previous arrest for battery — is “both unfair and untrue.”
The White House had said in a statement that Ferreira had not spoken to Karoline Leavitt in years and that Ferreira had never lived with her son. Trump administration officials have not responded to requests for supporting documentation for the accusations about Ferreira.
Lucas Vega, a lawyer representing the Department of Homeland Security, did not object to the judge releasing her from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. Although the Trump administration has sought to limit bond for undocumented immigrants, Vega said he agreed with Ferreira’s lawyers that she is not a danger to society or a flight risk and should be released.
In a recent interview with The Washington Post,Ferreira said she had chosen Karoline Leavitt to be the child’s godmother. She arrived in the United States when she was 6 years old and has tried repeatedly to obtain legal residency,her lawyers said. In the past, she has been granted work permits and reprieves from deportation under an Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, they said.
Ferreira’s familial connection to Leavitt has received heavy media coverage in recent weeks.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Homeland Security said that Ferreira had a “previous arrest for battery” after entering the country on a tourist visa, which expired in 1999. Per NBC, she appears to have been eligible to stay under Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, despite being in the country illegally.
However, McLaughlin said, DACA recipients can still be deported “for a number of reasons, including if they’ve committed a crime,” and officials have argued she is a “criminal illegal alien from Brazil.”
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