The measure was adopted after a Brazilian delegate on a mission in the United States had his access suspended from the North American system
The director general of the Federal Police (PF), Andrei Rodrigues, said this Wednesday (22) that stripped the credentials of a United States immigration officer of the corporation system. The measure, according to him, was in accordance with the principle of reciprocity.
In an interview with Studio iyes GloboNewsRodrigues explained that the Brazilian delegate Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho, involved in the , was on a mission in the United States and had his credentials removed from the North American system. The general director of the PF said that he himself ordered the return to Brazil.
“When he arrived at work, he was denied access to the system. Therefore, I understood that it would be more prudent to send him back to Brazil. He remains credited to the agency in the United States, its mission remains in effectbut he is here, in Brazil, so that we can understand, even in a formal way, this process”, added Rodrigues.
In a note, Itamaraty informed that communicated to the representative of the United States Embassy in Brazil the application of the principle of reciprocity in light of the North American decision regarding the Brazilian delegate. “[A medida] was not preceded by any request for clarification or attempt to dialogue about the caselike [estabelece] paragraph 7.3 of the bilateral memorandum of understanding that regulates this type of police cooperation”, said the ministry. Read the full below.
Asked to withdraw from the US
On Monday (20), the United States Department of State confirmed, in a publication on X (formerly Twitter), that the delegate Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho was asked to leave the country. The Brazilian agent was a PF liaison officer with the Immigration and Customs Service (ICE).
“No foreigner has the right to manipulate our immigration system to simultaneously circumvent formal extradition requests and extend political persecution to United States territory. Today, we request that the Brazilian authority in question leaves our country for trying to do exactly that”, informed the North American agency.
Opposition calls for impeachment of minister
Also this Wednesday, federal deputy Hélio Lopes (PL-RJ) reported that Wellington César Lima e Silva. The parliamentarian argued that Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho raised doubts about the performance of Brazilian public agents abroad and may have impacted the Brazil’s credibility and international relations.
Read the full note from Itamaraty
“In view of the confirmation of the information that the Brazilian Federal Police liaison officer with the Immigration and Customs Service (ICE), in Miami, was verbally informed by the United States government about the immediate interruption of the exercise of his official duties in North American territory, a representative of that country’s embassy was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs late yesterday afternoon (21)”.
“The Brazilian agent was acting based on a memorandum of understanding signed between the two governments on facilitating the exchange of liaison officers in the security area.”
“The representative of the North American embassy was informed, also verbally, that the Brazilian government will apply the principle of reciprocity in the face of the summary decision against the Federal Police agent, which was not preceded by any request for clarification or attempt at dialogue about the case, as provided for in paragraph 7.3 of the bilateral memorandum of understanding that regulates this type of police cooperation.”
“The measure also does not observe the good diplomatic practice of dialogue between friendly nations, such as Brazil and the United States, over more than 200 years of relationship. The terms of application of reciprocity were also transmitted verbally to the embassy representative and involve the immediate interruption of the exercise of official functions by the North American representative of a similar area in Brazilian territory.”
