General Discussion

Gisele Barreto Fetterman‘s social media accounts have been taken down after she spoke out about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this year. Her X and Instagram accounts were both inactive as of Thursday morning.

Barreto Fetterman, who formerly lived undocumented in the U.S. for more than a decade after emigrating from Brazil, posted about the emotional toll caused by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and other cities.

“Every day carried the same uncertainty and fear lived in my body — a tight chest, shallow breaths, racing heart,” she said in a post on X in late January, the day after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot civilian Alex Pretti. In the same month, an ICE agent fatally shot civilian Renee Good and the agency detained 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos.

“What I thought was my private, chronic dread has now become a shared national wound,"she added. “This now-daily violence is not ‘law and order.’ It is terror inflicted on people who contribute, love, and build their lives here. It’s devastatingly cruel and unAmerican.”