Ferreira, who came to the U.S. at age 6, was picked up by ICE agents while en route to pick up her 11-year-old son from school, her attorney told the Daily Beast. Since then, the White House has scrambled to distance Leavitt’s New Hampshire family from her, with insiders repeatedly claiming Leavitt hasn’t spoken to her nephew’s mother in “years.”

But just weeks before her arrest, Ferreira was cheering on her son at a recreational football game alongside Karoline’s parents and brother, she said.

“I asked Karoline to be godmother over my only sister,” she told the Post. “Why they’re creating this narrative is beyond my wildest imagination.”

White House officials have taken aggressive steps to distance Leavitt from Ferreira, even amplifying a Department of Homeland Security statement falsely claiming Ferreira was a “criminal” with a prior arrest for “battery.”
Her attorney, Todd Pomerleau, has dismissed those claims as lies. No publicly available court records show Ferreira has ever been arrested.
Leavitt’s brother, Michael—Ferreira’s ex-fiancé—has also alleged she never lived with her son, though he himself filed New Hampshire court records in 2015 listing them at the same address.