Leveille was detained with four other adult co-defendants after police raided the New Mexico compound on August 3. She was taken into federal custody on Tuesday after a New Mexico judge controversially ruled the group should be released on bond until their trials.
“Leveille has been unlawfully present in the U.S. for more than 20 years after overstaying the validity of her non-immigrant visitor visa,” the ICE statement said.
Leveille will appear before a judge to resolve her immigration status, which could potentially lead to her deportation, according to Reuters.
Reuters reviewed what is known about Leveille’s history in the United States:
Leveille moved to Brooklyn from Haiti in 1998 after their father died, according to her brother Von Chelet Leveille. She then moved several times between Georgia, Philadelphia and New York, following her separation from her first husband, Von Chelet Leveille said in a phone interview from Haiti.
Leveille had lived at the compound near Amalia, New Mexico since January with her husband Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and children, according to prosecutors. Her six children range in age between 1 and 15, her brother said.
Leveille, Ibn Wahhaj and three other adults at the compound were charged with child abuse on Aug. 8 and their 11 children were taken into protective custody.
Leveille has described herself as the “Muslim wife” of co-defendant Siraj Wahhaj, who is the son of a prominent New York City imam by the same name. Wahhaj is the subject of a warrant for kidnapping his three-year-old son Abdul-Ghani from Georgia.
Abdul-Ghani is believed to have died at the New Mexico compound because medication for his severe neurological condition was withheld while the defendants performed a Muslim “prayer ritual” to purge him of evil influences. Remains thought to be Abdul-Ghani’s were recovered at the compound but authorities have not yet positively identified them.
The other three defendants are Wahhaj’s two sisters,
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