The mother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere.

Bruna Caroline Ferreira, the mother of Leavitt’s 11-year-old nephew, was arrested near Boston on Nov. 12, her attorney, Todd Pomerleau, told CNN .

Ferreira was brought to the U.S. by her parents when she was a child in 1998, according to a GoFundMe .

“Since then, she has done everything in her power to build a stable, honest life here,” the GoFundMe reads.

Her tourist visa required her to leave the country in June 1999, the Department of Homeland Security told CNN, adding that she also “has a previous arrest for battery.”

However, Pomerleau told WCVB that Ferreira has no criminal record.

“Bruna has no criminal record whatsoever,” Pomerleau

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