By HOLLY RAMER, Related Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Brazilian girl with household ties to White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt can be launched from ICE custody whereas she fights potential deportation, an immigration decide dominated Monday.
Bruna Ferreira, 33, a longtime Massachusetts resident, was beforehand engaged to Leavitt’s brother, Michael. She was driving to choose up their 11-year-old son in New Hampshire when she was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers in Revere, Massachusetts, on Nov. 12.
Ferreira later was moved to a detention facility in Louisiana, the place an immigration decide ordered that she be launched on $1,500 bond, her legal professional Todd Pomerleau stated.
“We argued that she wasn’t a hazard or a flight danger,” he stated in a textual content message. “The federal government stipulated to our argument and by no means as soon as argued that she was prison unlawful alien and waived attraction.”
The Division of Homeland Safety beforehand known as Ferreira a “prison unlawful alien” and stated she had been arrested for battery, an allegation her legal professional denied. Neither the division nor the White Home press secretary responded to requests for remark Monday.
Pomerleau stated his consumer got here to the U.S. as a toddler and later enrolled within the Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals program, the Obama-era coverage that shields immigrants who have been delivered to the U.S. as youngsters. He stated she was within the strategy of making use of for a inexperienced card.
Karoline Leavitt grew up in New Hampshire, and made an unsuccessful run for Congress from the state in 2022 earlier than changing into Trump’s spokesperson for his 2024 marketing campaign and later becoming a member of him on the White Home.
