A woman who has ties to the family of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was detained by ICE agents in Massachusetts earlier this month, according to her lawyer and White House officials.

Bruna Caroline Ferreria, a Brazilian national who lives in Revere, is the mother of Leavitt’s nephew. The two women have not spoken in many years. Ferreria’s son has lived in New Hampshire full-time with his father since he was born and has never resided with Ferreria, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Ferreria was detained by ICE on the afternoon of Nov. 12 soon after she left her house in Revere. She was on her way to southern New Hampshire to pick her son up from school.

Ferreria was pulled over, asked who she was, and then taken to New Hampshire and Vermont by ICE. She was e

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