Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew Tells CNN That ICE Arrested Her Without a Warrant and Took Her Away in Unmarked Car

Kathryn Wilkens Dec 12th, 2025, 9:05 pm

During a Friday appearance on CNN, the mother of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, Bruna-Caroline Ferreira , said that the ICE officers who arrested her last month as she was driving to pick her son up from school did not present a warrant and took her away in an unmarked car.

As CNN’s Erin Burnett explained, Ferreira shares custody of her son with Leavitt’s brother, whom she was engaged to until about a decade ago. She’s been in the United States since 1998, when she immigrated from Brazil as a six-year-old. Notably, her son is also the press secretary’s godson.

“The Trump administration calls her a ‘crimina

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