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Published Apr 12, 2026 at 01:23 PM EDT
updated Apr 12, 2026 at 01:26 PM EDT
By Hollie Silverman

Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian model with past social ties to President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, described what she called a hellish experience in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in an interview with El País that was published on Sunday.

Ungaro, 41, said she was held first in Miami and later transferred to Louisiana, where she was kept in a hall with more than 120 detainees, went days without sunlight, and “came out infested with lice” ...

Ungaro said police arrested her and her husband in Florida in June after an anonymous tip related to a cosmetic clinic. She told El País she had no prior criminal record and was placed in a cell with “child murderers."

The model said she was handcuffed and transferred to an immigration detention center in Miami, where she “spent the whole day crying,” and saw an elderly detainee “handcuffed to a wheelchair” ...

https://www.newsweek.com/amanda-ungaro-describes-hellish-ice-experience-infested-with-lice-11817271