Bruna Ferreira came to the US from Brazil as a child, and by all accounts, lived a life like any American: playing on the high school tennis team, getting married and divorced, building a small business and helping raise her son.

The mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew has been detained by officials amid the Trump administration's ramped-up immigration enforcement efforts, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News.

Leavitt has not yet publicly commented on her relative’s arrest, while other family members have launched a GoFundMe page