ICE has five offices in Canada – including Montreal
ICE has an office here in Montreal as well as offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Ottawa. Item says the office here is in the U.S. consulate on Ste‑Catherine downtown.
There are conflicting statements in this piece, notably that local police don’t like it, but at the same time, that these U.S. agents collaborate with our police on terrorism and drug cases. But it ends with a hopeful claim that these agents could not seize immigrants here and deport them. Are we so sure?
Later, CBC had a piece on what U.S. agents can and can’t do here, which echoes the statement below by R T. My main concern is with the U.S. simply having no respect for other countries’ sovereignty.
R T 23:12 on 2026-02-04 Permalink
Police in Canada collaborate with these US ICE officers because these agents don’t really work on deportations. The agents in US consulates in Canada work for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which is technically part of ICE but is (or maybe was now) run separately from “Enforcement and Removal Operations”—and which also absolutely despises being part of ICE due to a mixture of snobbery and revulsion.
When immigration and customs were brought into a single department in the US after 9/11, the US Customs Service investigators were extremely resentful of being moved to the new “ICE Office of Investigations”, with an attitude of “we are serious law enforcement professionals who investigate drug cartels, counterfeiting rings and human traffickers, not guys who pick people up in their driveway like a probation officer”. They pushed repeatedly in the past to be separated from ICE, as being associated with the deportation squad can be a hindrance in getting people to cooperate and the work they do is not at all like “Removal Operations” (and also they have a psychic injury from being lumped together with the deportation squad). Eventually, they got themselves renamed “Homeland Security Investigations”, with vehicles and badges that no longer mention ICE despite remaining part of ICE on paper.
Now, of course, Trump is reassigning anyone he can find with a pulse to work on deportations. The real threat is probably not that these HSI officers would start arresting people on the street in Montreal but rather that they get sent to someplace like Minneapolis and stop working on their joint investigations with the RCMP, the same way FBI agents have been forced to drop terrorism and sex crime investigations to hassle people on the street and outside Home Depots.
bob 12:27 on 2026-02-05 Permalink
There are also FBI and DEA all over the world, including Canada. And, of course, spies. So many spies.
With all the elbows up stuff we forget how integrated we are with respect to industry, commerce, finance, policing, defense, etc.
marcus copeland 19:19 on 2026-02-09 Permalink
Is there anyone here?
Need help.
U.S. Officials kidnapped me in 2021, kept me inside a basement in Manhattan, then secretly trafficking me to Canada in 2022, where they have been keeping me since, isolated, restrained and silenced without a lawyer for now nearly 4 years, with no due process and no access to the U.S. Justice system. For verification, my name is Marcus Copeland, My U.S. Immigration A # is 079 115 251. I need justice. There’s a video on YouTube with more information – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EZVDL6ezQU.
#StolenLPR, #TheMostHatedRefugee.
Kate 10:53 on 2026-02-10 Permalink
Mr copeland, you’ve commented here several times, and while I have sympathy for whatever jam you’re in, nobody here can help you.
We just look at local news here and exchange comments, we’re in no position to advocate for anyone. I am not going to delete your comment (as I did several others, many much longer than this one) but you need to find help somewhere else.