Throughout her first interview since being launched from weeks in ICE custody, the mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew has a message for the White Home press secretary.
Bruna Caroline Ferreira spoke about her “mind-boggling” expertise throughout a sit-down with CNN’s Erin Burnett, which aired Friday. Federal immigration brokers detained Ferreira on November 12 whereas she was selecting up her son from college.
“I believe what I must say to Karoline is: Simply since you went to a Catholic college doesn’t make you a great Catholic,” Ferreira stated. “You recognize, you’re a mom. You’re a mom now, and you must know. How would you are feeling for those who have been in these, in my footwear? You recognize, how would you are feeling if anyone did this to you?”
Ferreira, the ex-fiancée and co-parent of the press secretary’s brother Michael Leavitt, informed CNN she arrived within the U.S. from Brazil in 1998, when she was 6 years outdated. Ferreira stated she was within the means of acquiring a inexperienced card on the time of her arrest.
Ferreira additionally shot down the White Home’s declare that she was an absentee mom who had by no means lived together with her son.
“Why would anybody lie about this when it’s 2025? We’ve a digital footprint of every little thing,” Ferreira stated. “…I’m simply as misplaced as you’re, and I’m hoping that this interview will get me some solutions.”
Ferreira stated she was harm by the White Home accusing her of being a legal. A spokesperson for the Division of Homeland Safety told People magazine Ferreira had “a earlier arrest for battery” – a declare she and her lawyer, Todd Pomerleau, have denied.
“I’m heartbroken. I’m heartbroken for my son,” Ferreira stated, including that she had lengthy been “a law-abiding citizen.”
Ferreira defined that she was nonetheless attempting to make sense of the state of affairs.
“I’m attempting to grasp and have religion that there’s some logical clarification behind any of this, however there isn’t,” she stated. “I’m not the primary. I’m certainly not going to be the final. There’s hundreds of girls and households and youngsters being separated day by day. The place does it finish? When does it cease?”
