Ecuador’s minister of foreign affairs has filed a protest with the U.S. Embassy after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tried to enter the Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis without permission Tuesday.

A video of the attempt on social media shows a consulate staffer running to the door to turn the ICE agents away, telling them, “This is the Ecuadorian consulate. You’re not allowed to enter.”

One ICE officer can be heard responding by threatening to “grab” the staffer if he touched the agent before agreeing to leave.

International law generally prohibits law enforcement authorities from entering foreign consulates or embassies without permission, though sometimes permission may be assumed granted for life-threatening emergencies, like fires.

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      What makes you think these are new hires? The guy who shot Renee Good was an 8 year veteran of ICE. They removed all the guard rails and all of are acting with impunity.

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      That’s where you’re wrong. They taught them a lot of useful things (for them). They just didn’t teach them what’s legal or not. In fact, they explicitly taught them to do many illegal things.

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          Useful for them.

          Do you think thievery isn’t useful to the thief? Usually the phrase “legality is not morality” is required, but I guess this time it’s “legality is not utility.” It being legal has no bearing on it being useful or not.