REAKING: INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT! ICE agents just tried to invade a foreign consulate and threatened its diplomatic staff.
It wasn’t enough for Donald Trump’s ICE goons to run lawlessly rampant through the streets of Minnesota, go on to murder innocent civilians, and wage a campaign that ignores the Constitution and violates human rights over the past few weeks.
No, they also had to keep up with the Trump regime’s dedication to intentionally violating international law — as it has done with its actions in Venezuela, bombing vessels and executing their occupants without due process, and kidnapping the country’s admittedly illegitimate leader.
On Tuesday morning, an ICE agent attempted to enter the Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis without permission, an act so extreme and reckless that Ecuador’s government immediately filed a formal diplomatic protest with the United States.
Video verified by The New York Times and local station KSTP shows a consulate staffer sprinting to the door as the agent appears to open it. The staffer can be heard saying plainly, “This is the Ecuadorian consulate. You’re not allowed to enter.” The agent’s response? A threat: “If you touch me, I’ll grab you.”
Let that sink in. A U.S. immigration agent threatened a foreign diplomat while attempting to breach a clearly marked consulate — a building protected under the Vienna Conventions, which strictly prohibit host-country law enforcement from entering without authorization.
Ecuador’s foreign ministry said consulate officials activated emergency protocols to protect Ecuadorian nationals inside and swiftly lodged a protest with the U.S. Embassy, demanding that “acts of this nature not be repeated at any of Ecuador’s consular offices in the United States.”
Legal experts were stunned. University of Minnesota law professor Ana Pottratz Acosta called the incident “beyond unusual,” “unprecedented,” and “potentially dangerous,” warning it could seriously damage diplomatic relations. “There are rules of the road under international law,” she said. “This is a major infraction of diplomatic norms.”
And this didn’t happen in a vacuum.
The attempted breach comes amid Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown in Minnesota, which has already sparked national outrage. Just one week earlier, ICE agents detained 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos outside his school, a haunting image that spread across the country. Liam and his father are Ecuadorian asylum seekers.
Now, ICE has escalated from schools and churches to foreign consulates.
The Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and the State Department all declined to comment, but Ecuador spoke loudly — and so did the law.
When immigration enforcement starts testing the limits of international sovereignty, it’s no longer just about policy. It’s about whether the United States still believes the rules apply to itself. And this time, a small consulate in Minneapolis said no — and the world is paying attention.
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