Immigration, Family Ties, and 'Disgusting' Lies: The Case of Karoline Leavitt and Bruna Ferreira

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After ICE arrested Bruna Ferreira, the mother of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, she called the White House portrayal of her as a “criminal” and “absentee mother” “disgusting” and false, as a judge granted minimum bond and the case moved forward in Boston.

Bruna Caroline Ferreira, a 33-year-old Brazilian-born woman who has lived in the United States since childhood, was ordered released on bond on Dec. 8 after Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained her for nearly a month. The government did not contest at her bond hearing that she posed little risk, a courtroom posture that diverged from the White House and Department of Homeland Security’s public branding of her as a “criminal illegal alien” and an “absentee mother.”

Ferreira said those claims were untrue and described the White House statement as a betrayal of her role in her son’s life and of a family relationship she said had remained connected through years of co-parenting. She said the administration’s public characterization felt especially damaging given her family tie to the press secretary.

The detention unfolded as the Trump administration has sought to accelerate removals, and officials have said publicly that the effort is aimed at violent offenders. Ferreira’s lawyers and the bond hearing record say she has no criminal convictions and was assessed in court as neither dangerous nor likely to flee, a mismatch that has raised broader questions about how official narratives can shape enforcement cases and how mixed-status families, households with members who have different immigration statuses, can be destabilized when public characterizations diverge from documented reality.

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