Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested this Wednesday a woman who has a family connection with him and as reported by the American media.
This is Bruna Caroline Ferreira, mother of Leavitt’s nephew and originally from Brazil, who was residing in the country even though her tourist visa expired in June 1999, according to NBC News, which quotes a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Since he was born, Leavitt’s nephew has lived in New Hampshire only with his father and his mother has not had contact with Leavitt for many years, according to CNN. This same source has indicated that Ferreira was arrested in Revere (Massachusetts) by immigration authorities, on suspicion of having committed an assault, although he did not give further details about it. At the moment, The woman remains held in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, pending deportation.
Your sister, Graziela Dos Santos Rodriguescreated a GoFundMe campaign to cover legal expenses and in it states that Ferreira arrived in the United States in 1998 and maintained his legal status thanks to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This organization, created in 2012 by then, postponed the deportation of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States when they were minors.
For his part, Ferreira’s lawyer, Todd Pomerleauhas denied that his client has a criminal record and has also assured that the detainee was arrested in her vehicle without a court order and that she was in the process of obtaining her permanent residence.
