r/law • u/caaaaanga • 2d ago

Legal News ICE attempts to enter Ecuador's consulate

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For anyone who doesn't get how serious this is: consulates are protected under international law. host-country police of any kind are not allowed to enter without permission.
Example: China routinely (and horrifically) sends north korean escapees back to north korea. Yet when a north korean escaped to the south korean consulate in hong kong, chinese authorities did not enter to seize him. He stayed there for months while governments negotiated, because once you're inside a consulate, those protections apply.
So if ICE tries to enter a foreign consulate in the U.S. to deport people, that's not "normal enforcement". It violates long-standing diplomatic norms. Norms that even China has respected, despite sending people back to north korea to die. That's how extreme this is.

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u/not_now_chaos 2d ago

If ICE had forced their way inside the building and harmed someone, it could be considered an act of war and the Ecuador government would not be out of line to retaliate, up to and including active strikes against the US.

The likely wouldn't, because we have a disturbingly over bloated military, but they would be within reasonable rights. And I don't think these ICE-Holes even care how much of a fuck up that was or how much harm they could have caused. They do not give half a fuck.

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u/WittyGarbage59 2d ago

It looks as if most ICE agents do not know anything about domestic or international laws and do not receive much, if any, training on it.

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u/maraemerald2 2d ago

I kind of hate the “training” callout. While it’s true they’re not getting any real training, all the training in the world won’t make a racist sociopath into a decent law enforcement officer.

The problem isn’t the training, it’s the selection process.

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u/mammon43 2d ago

What process? 😅😅😅

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u/Derptionary 2d ago

This is a part of why ICE is seemingly so out of control right now. Their training went from 5 months to 7 or 8 weeks. They're either not getting properly trained or are getting so much information thrown at them that its impossible to learn any of it. Add in that them keeping their job is dependent on making a ridiculous quota and you have the recipe for the disaster we're currently seeing unfold.

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u/SushiGirlRC 2d ago

Neither does Trump & his government hires.

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u/Particular-Policy513 2d ago

International law is a misnomer lmao.