U.S. officials have detained an extended family member of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt amid a nationwide crackdown on immigration, NBC News and CNN reported.

Bruna Caroline Ferreira, the mother of Leavitt’s nephew and the former fiancée of her brother Michael Leavitt, was taken into custody in Revere, Mass., on Nov. 12, her lawyer, Todd Pomerleau, said.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told NBC News that Ferreira is a “criminal illegal alien from Brazil” who had remained in the U.S. on a tourist visa, which expired in June 1999.

Ferreira has an arrest record for battery, the spokesperson added, without providing further details.

Pomerleau contradicted the DHS spokesperson and told local CNN affiliate, WMUR , that Ferreira “has no criminal record wh

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