The U.S. Embassy in Brazil says the Brazilian security attaché, Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho, has been asked to leave the United States by the Trump administration.
De Carvalho, who was based in Miami, had been acting as a liaison with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The request for him to leave follows the detention of former Brazilian intelligence chief Alexandre Ramagem—a close ally of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—in Orlando, Florida, last week.
ICE did not comment publicly on Ramagem’s detention, but Bolsonaro is a political ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, and the U.S. State Department later accused the Brazilians of trying to “game” them….