A girl with household ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is being released on bond from ICE custody after being arrested earlier this month close to Boston, in line with her lawyer.
Immigration Judge Cynthia Goodman on Monday ordered the discharge of Bruna Ferreira, 33, from the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Todd Pomerleau, an legal professional for Ferreira, mentioned. The facility is about 80 miles from Baton Rouge and greater than 1,500 miles from the place Ferreira was arrested.
Bond was set at $1,500, the bottom quantity allowed below the legislation, in line with Pomerleau.
In courtroom Monday, Ferreira’s attorneys argued “she’s not a danger, she’s not a flight risk,” Pomerleau mentioned.
The lawyer representing the Department of Homeland Security didn’t battle the protection argument and waived enchantment, in line with Pomerleau.
NCS has reached out to DHS for remark.
Ferreira was arrested whereas driving to choose up her 11-year-old son from New Hampshire, Pomerleau instructed NCS. Ferreira was beforehand engaged to the boy’s father, Michael Leavitt, and the 2 share custody, Pomerleau mentioned.
Michael Leavitt is the brother of Karoline Leavitt.
Pomerleau mentioned he didn’t know precisely when Ferreira can be released, because it relied on ICE receiving the choose’s order and her household paying the bond.
Then she is going to return to Massachusetts and her case will likely be transferred again to Boston immigration courtroom.
It’s all a part of what Pomerleau referred to as the “unconstitutional merry-go-round.”
Another of Ferreira’s attorneys mentioned she simply desires to be along with her son.
“She has established her entire life here in the United States since she has been a child,” legal professional Jeffrey Rubin mentioned. “She looks forward to reuniting with her son and getting back to her life as a hard-working business owner.”
A DHS spokesperson beforehand instructed NCS that Ferreira was within the US illegally after overstaying a vacationer visa that required her to go away the nation in June 1999. Ferreira is “a criminal illegal alien from Brazil,” DHS mentioned.
Pomerleau mentioned the DHS assertion is inaccurate.
Ferreira’s legal professional mentioned she was a former recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which grants momentary safety from deportation for these delivered to the US as youngsters, however was unable to resume her standing a number of years in the past throughout President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the program throughout his first administration and is at the moment in the midst of a “lawful immigration process” for US citizenship.