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The United States has ordered Brazilian Federal Police delegate Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho to leave the country after accusing a Brazilian official of trying to use the U.S. immigration system to sidestep formal extradition procedures in the case of former congressman Alexandre Ramagem.
The move was announced on April 20 by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs in a post on X. Without naming Carvalho directly, the bureau said no foreign official would be allowed to "game" the U.S. immigration system to "circumvent formal extradition requests" or extend what it called a political persecution onto American soil. G1 reported that the U.S. embassy in Brasília confirmed Carvalho was the official referenced in the statement.
Carvalho had been serving as the Brazilian Federal Police's liaison with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, in Miami. According to G1, he was appointed to the post in 2023 for a two-year mission, later extended until August 2026. His duties included cooperation on cross-border investigations and the identification and arrest of Brazilian fugitives in the United States.
The case is tied to the arrest on April 13 of Alexandre Ramagem, a former federal lawmaker from Rio de Janeiro, former head of Brazil's intelligence agency Abin, and a former Bolsonaro ally. Ramagem was detained by ICE in Orlando, Florida. Brazil's Federal Police initially said he had been taken into custody for immigration-related reasons in a joint operation with U.S. authorities.
Ramagem was released two days later. After leaving detention, he said his stay in the United States was lawful and thanked senior officials in Donald Trump's administration for what he described as an administrative release, without court proceedings or bail.
According to G1, Ramagem is seeking asylum in the United States and has been allowed to remain free while that request is reviewed. Brazilian authorities, meanwhile, had been preparing documents aimed at speeding up his return to Brazil.
Ramagem left Brazil in 2025 after being convicted by the Supreme Federal Court, Brazil's top court, and sentenced to 16 years in prison for attempted coup-related crimes tied to efforts to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro in office after the 2022 election. Investigators allege he was part of the operation's core group. Brazil's Justice Ministry said earlier this year that an extradition request had already been sent to the U.S. government.
The diplomatic friction now centers on whether Brazilian officials tried to obtain Ramagem's removal through immigration channels rather than waiting for the extradition process to run its course. That distinction matters because deportation and extradition follow different legal tracks in the United States, with extradition typically involving a more formal judicial and diplomatic process.
Neither Brazil's Foreign Ministry nor the Federal Police publicly endorsed the U.S. accusation. G1 reported that Itamaraty declined to comment, while the Federal Police said it had not been formally notified of the American measure.
Revista Oeste, a conservative Brazilian outlet, described Carvalho's departure as an expulsion and framed the episode as part of a broader claim of political persecution against Ramagem. G1, citing the U.S. embassy, reported the measure more narrowly as an order for the delegate to leave the country. What is clear from both accounts is that Washington took the unusual step of removing a Brazilian law-enforcement representative stationed inside the U.S. system during a politically sensitive extradition dispute.
The episode adds an international dimension to one of Brazil's most consequential post-Bolsonaro legal cases, and suggests the Ramagem matter may test not only Brazilian institutions but also the limits of security cooperation between Brasília and Washington.
Fonts: https://revistaoeste.com/politica/eua-pedem-que-delegado-da-pf-envolvido-na-prisao-de-ramagem-deixe-o-pais/ https://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2026/04/20/eua-pedem-saida-de-autoridade-brasileira-por-tentar-contornar-pedido-extradicao.ghtml
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