WH Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt
New Video Reveals ICE Arresting Nephew’s Mom
Revealed December 3, 2025 9:32 AM PST
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TMZ.com
By no means-before-seen footage exhibits the second ICE brokers arrested a lady with household ties to White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
TMZ obtained video displaying Bruna Caroline Ferreira, the mom of Karoline’s nephew, being swarmed by federal immigration brokers final month in Massachusetts.
Surveillance footage exhibits Ferreira, who’s from Brazil, in a sedan leaving her condominium in Revere, Mass round 12:30 PM on November 12 … when swiftly her path is blocked by 5 unmarked autos.
A bunch of brokers hop out of the automobiles and the following factor you recognize, Ferreira has her arms behind her again and is being thrown in handcuffs.
Ferreira is positioned behind an SUV and the ICE brokers get again of their automobiles and drive off … with somebody taking her automobile too.
A DHS spokesperson beforehand instructed us Ferreira entered the U.S. on a B2 vacationer visa that required her to go away the U.S. by June 6, 1999.
The spokesperson described her as “a felony unlawful alien from Brazil” and claimed she had a previous arrest for battery.
Ferreira is presently being held on the South Louisiana ICE Processing Heart and is in elimination proceedings.
Karoline’s nephew reportedly lives full-time in New Hampshire along with her brother, Michael. Karoline has apparently not spoken to Ferreira in years.
Bruna’s lawyer, Todd Pomerleau, tells TMZ … “I’ve simply been proven a video of my shopper, Bruna Ferreira, documenting her illegal arrest by officers who seem like from ICE. However it’s arduous to inform as a result of they’ve masks over their faces and are in unmarked autos. No warrant is proven. Frequent ways lately.”
Pomerleau continues … “That is focused, unconstitutional depravity. A single mom who owns two companies and was merely awaiting her inexperienced card — like tens of 1000’s of others — now sits in a for-profit jail in Louisiana stripped from her little one proper earlier than the vacations.”
Pomerleau writes … “Bruna had no downside in any respect with the Leavitt household. Karoline is her son’s godmother, chosen over her personal sister, and Michael Sr. is an excellent father. Bruna was en route to select up her son Michael Jr. after college like she did a number of days every week. He lived along with her until kindergarten, however now awaits for his mom’s heat embrace.”
Pomerleau concludes … “That is appalling. We look ahead to her day in court docket.”
