Bruna Ferreira\u2019s story is a collision of policy and flesh-and-blood consequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brought from Brazil as a child in 1998, she built a quiet life in the U.S., worked, and enrolled in DACA,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
believing it offered some protection. Instead, she now sits in the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
facing removal to a country she barely remembers, while officials cite an old battery arrest and the simple fact of her expired visa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her case might have remained anonymous if not for one detail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
she shares an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, brother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The administration insists there has been \u201cno involvement whatsoever,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
yet the emotional fallout is impossible to separate from the politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bruna\u2019s sister has launched a GoFundMe to fund a last-ditch legal fight,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
as her son clings to a single hope\u2014that his mother will somehow be home before the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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