The Ecuadorian Foreign Affairs Ministry says an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent tried to enter the country’s consulate in Minneapolis on Tuesday but was blocked by its staff.
“Consulate staff immediately prevented the ICE official from entering the consular building, thereby guaranteeing the protection of the Ecuadorians who found themselves in the consular building in that moment, and activating emergency protocols issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Movement,” the ministry said in a statement about the incident, which it says happened around 11 a.m.
In a video circulating on social media and geolocated by NBC News to the consulate, an employee is seen rushing to the door and opening it to a masked ICE agent. The agent tells the employee, “If you touch me, I will grab you.” The employee replies, “You cannot enter here. This is a consulate, this is a foreign government property.”
According to the video, after the agent leaves, the consular employee says he is making a call, and another employee says that the agents had followed people there.
The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said it had issued “a note of protest” to the U.S. embassy in Ecuador over what it described as an “attempted incursion,” demanding such incidents “not be repeated.”
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