Ecuador's government condemned a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who tried to enter its consulate in Minneapolis. Consular officials stopped the agent at 11:00 local time on Tuesday, protecting the Ecuadorians inside. Ecuador's foreign ministry said it filed an official complaint with the US embassy in Quito. The ministry cited the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, which says consulate premises are 'inviolable' and cannot be entered without consent. Ecuador said its officials did not give permission. The Convention allows entry only in urgent cases like fires, which did not apply here. A video shared by Ecuadorian media shows a consular official blocking the ICE agent and saying, "this is the consulate, you're not allowed in here." The agent responded, "if you touch me, I will grab you," before the door was closed. This tense incident comes amid high unrest in Minneapolis following the shooting deaths of two people by border agents, including nurse Alex Pretti on 24 January. Protests have erupted over the Trump administration's tough immigration enforcement. President Trump recently pledged to "de-escalate" immigration operations "a little bit" in Minnesota, where 3,000 immigration officers are active. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said that over 675,000 illegal immigrants were removed from the US since Trump’s second term began. Despite Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa being an ally of Trump, this event marks a rare diplomatic clash. Noboa had recently praised Trump for labeling two Ecuadorian gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. But the consulate incident shows rising tensions amid US immigration crackdowns.