I did not have “ICE breaking international law,” on my Bingo card.ICE set off an international incident in Minneapolis today because agents tried to go into the Consulate of Ecuador without permission, and then yelled at their staff for trying to keep them out.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 28, 2026
Note that there is a huge “consulate of Ecuador” sign over the door. https://t.co/bCE5KeuUS3 pic.twitter.com/xZkih3XdmD
In a statement released following the incident, the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said an ICE agent “attempted to enter the consulate premises,” but “consulate officials immediately prevented” the officer from getting through the door, “thus ensuring the protection of Ecuadorians who were present at the time and activating emergency protocols.”Stephen Miller has yet to pronounce the proper protocol for this situation. Kristi Noem reasserts that she was only following orders.
The ministry said it “immediately presented a note of protest” to the US Embassy in Quito, Ecuador’s capital, “so that acts of this nature are not repeated in any of Ecuador’s consular offices in the United States.”
Under international treaties, law enforcement officers of host nations are barred from entering foreign embassies and consulates without permission.
One eyewitness to the incident in Minneapolis, a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s violent mass deportation efforts, told Reuters that they saw ICE agents “going after two people in the street, and then those people went into the consulate and the officers tried to go in after them.”
And I had thought Mayor Frey was just pulling a wild example out of thin air:
The job of our police is to keep people safe, not enforce fed immigration laws. I want them preventing homicides, not hunting down a working dad who contributes to MPLS & is from Ecuador. It’s similar to the policy your guy Rudy had in NYC. Everyone should feel safe calling 911. pic.twitter.com/4RKo3mmOW2
— Mayor Jacob Frey (@MayorFrey) January 28, 2026
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