It sure looks like Karoline Leavitt had something to do with the ICE arrest and detention of Bruna-Caroline Ferreira, the Brazilian-born DACA recipient who is the mother of a child with the Trump press secretary’s brother. Leavitt is also the child’s godmother.
Ferreira sat down for a lengthy, emotional interview on CNN Friday night. She was accompanied by her lawyer, Todd Pomerleau. Despite Trump administration claims that she had a criminal record and that her son lived full-time with his father, Ferreira seemed every bit the law-abiding, involved mother of her child, Michael.
According to Ferreira and her lawyer, she was arrested by a “swarm” of masked agents from five unmarked vehicles, and never shown a warrant, as she left her home to pick up Michael from school. They were obviously looking for her because they asked her, “Are you Bruna?” Pomerleau described a video of the arrest as looking like “an undercover drug buy, where they just go in right away and they know who they’re getting.”
Then there was this exchange in which Ferreira and her lawyer suggested she had been targeted by the Trump administration:
