New Delhi, Dec. 9 -- Bruna Caroline Ferreira, the mother of a nephew of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, will be released from a detention facility for illegal immigrants in Louisiana after being nabbed a couple of weeks ago in Massachusetts.

An immigration judge has ordered for her release on a $1,500 bond.

Ferreira, who has an 11-year-old son with Leavitt's elder brother, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on 26 November when she was going to pick her son up from school.

The Department of Homeland Security has called her a "criminal illegal alien."

Ferreira's attorney. Todd Pomerleau, said that she was working on getting her green card. as per a NY Post report. Ferreira, who was born in Bra...