Brazilian Woman Tied to Leavitt Family Released on Bond

A Brazilian woman with close family ties to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was ordered released from immigration detention on Monday after nearly a month in custody, as she continues to contest potential deportation proceedings.

Bruna Caroline Ferreira, 33, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on November 12 in Revere, Massachusetts, while driving to pick up her 11-year-old son from school in New Hampshire. The son is shared with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother and Ferreira's former fiancé. Ferreira, who entered the United States from Brazil at age 6 in 1998 on a B-2 tourist visa that expired in June 1999, was transferred to the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center following her arrest. Immigration Judge Cynthia Goodman approved her release on a $1,500 bond, the lowest amount possible, allowing Ferreira to return to Massachusetts pending her case.

Ferreira's attorneys argued successfully in court that she posed no danger to the community or flight risk. "We argued that she wasn't a danger or a flight risk," said Todd Pomerleau, one of her lawyers from the Boston-based firm Rubin Pomerleau PC. A Department of Homeland Security...