Posted on 11/28/2025 7:47:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained Burna Caroline Ferreria, a Brazilian national and mother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, for overstaying a 1999 tourist visa. Held in Louisiana pending deportation, her lawyer says she has no criminal record and shares custody of her son—a claim disputed by a White House source.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told Scripps News that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested Burna Caroline Ferreria, the mother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew.
DHS said Ferreria, a Brazilian national, entered the United States on a B-2 tourist visa, which required her to leave the U.S. by June 6, 1999. She was arrested and taken to the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center, where she will go through deportation proceedings.
Ferreria’s attorney, Todd Pomerleau, told Scripps News that she has no criminal record and that she and Leavitt’s brother have shared custody of their son.
“Our concern right now is getting a single mother out of a nice hellhole in Louisiana. We have no idea why she was detained. She wasn’t given any explanation at all. And you know, her relationship with the press secretary for the White House appears to be happenstance,” he said.
A Trump administration source familiar with the situation said Leavitt and Ferreria have not spoken in years. The White House source disputed the attorney’s claim that Leavitt’s brother and Ferreria share custody of their son.
“The child has lived full time in New Hampshire with his father since he was born. He has never resided with his mother,” the source said.
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Sounds like Justin, Patrick and Jacob are playing a game of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon."
What about Victor, the Lone Ranger’s nephew’s horse?
“... the mother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew.”
Why didn’t they just say ‘former sister-in-law’?................
Making this news is dumb.
Another source: Ferreira has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline’s brother.
Does that mean without a marriage, or after a divorce?
...because they were not married. There is no real connection. The baby momma might have been an ex-fiancee.
It’s simple: if you are here and not supposed to be, go home. No drama, no courts, no jail... just. LEAVE!
Nephews are permanently connected relatives. Former SILs are a lot harder to smear a target with.
True. Confusing to the readers but that’s modern “journalism.”
Typical of Scripps
“So she is your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.” darkhelmet spaceballs.............
Over stayed a tourist visa by 26 years.........
Want to bet her luggage combination is “12345”.....
Meaning blood relatives by someone's sister or brother.
My dear wife died, so her sister's two sons are no longer my nephews. Former nephews.
Once this could have been sorted out on Jerry Springer.
But I once in a while see promos for family fight shows so they’re still popular, apparently.
The mother of one’s nephew is one’s sister.
But they don’t say it’s her sister.
They don’t even say sister in law.
Media propaganda narrative garbage.
my uncle’s ex-wife told me years ago when I moved into her hometown Ater years of her being divorced and not seeing her that you don’t divorce nephews. She treated me from the day I reconnected to her to the day she died as family even though her extended family did not....
I don’t think the brother ever married this woman. A shorter headline would say “bastard nephew”.
The Far-Left jackass “media” is trying to set President Trump up as playing family favorites. If she’s here illegally, she needs to take a hike, regardless of whose sister-in-law she is. These liberal Poor Little Illegal Alien Sob stories are getting ridiculous.
Beat me to it.
Who cares?
They had a child, but were never married.
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