The US government has asked Brazilian security attache Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho to leave the United States, the US Embassy in the South American country said on Monday, Report informs via Reuters.
De Carvalho, who acts as a liaison with US immigration enforcement, has been based in Miami.
The move comes after ICE last week briefly detained Brazilian intelligence chief Alexandre Ramagem, who fled Brazil in September following his conviction for plotting a coup with ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, a political ally of Donald Trump.
"No foreigner gets to game our immigration system to both circumvent formal extradition requests and extend political witch hunts into US territory," the US State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs said on X, adding "the relevant Brazilian official" was asked to depart.
The message, which was reposted by the US embassy in Brazil, did not name the official or explicitly mention Ramagem's case. The embassy later confirmed to Reuters it referred to de Carvalho.