A relative of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has been detained by federal immigration officials in Massachusetts.
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, “a criminal illegal alien from Brazil,” was taken into custody in Revere, Mass., after allegedly overstaying her tourist visa that expired in June 1999, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told NBC News.
Ferreira shares an 11-year-old son with Leavitt’s older brother, Michael.
“The only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of my son,” Michael Leavitt told New Hampshire station WMUR.
Leavitt, the country’s youngest White House press secretary at 28, told the outlet she had no comment on Ferreira’s arrest, but a source said the women have not spoken in many years.
