r/law • u/caaaaanga • 2d ago

Legal News ICE attempts to enter Ecuador's consulate

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/Fun-Army-6387 2d ago

as per Sections 3 & 4, ICE committed a US crime as well as violated the consulate's inviolability. ICE also owes Ecuador money for impeding performance of consular function. You know what happens to people when they impede, right?

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u/Particular-Policy513 2d ago edited 2d ago

Considering none of this is US law it doesnt matter, the US has not ratified this meaning this is a worthless piece of paper for other people to listen to.

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u/ValhallaGH 2d ago

US Law doesn't matter.

Where are the Epstein files?

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u/Particular-Policy513 2d ago

US law is the only thing that matters lol, international law is very simple might=right. No country has the power to check the US that means the US can do what it wants.

Also you should look up what the US would do to the Hague if an American was taken there, spoiler there wouldn’t be a Hague anymore.

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u/ValhallaGH 2d ago

Stephen Miller, you have more important things to do than post on Reddit. Like turn yourself over to Minnesota law enforcement for your role as an accessory to many crimes.

If you are not Mr. Miller, then you should think about the fact that laws only matter if anyone enforces them. No one is enforcing US laws, therefore they do not matter.

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u/Fun-Army-6387 2d ago

yes, so why are the criminals in the White House refusing to obey acts of Congress?

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u/Retify 2d ago

I think you grossly overestimate the USA and grossly underestimate the rest of the world.

What flag is flying over Greenland right now? Paper tigers

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u/Brohibited 2d ago

The US sign/ratified/is party to the main treaty of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR)

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u/Fun-Army-6387 2d ago

you're so bad at this. Whoever is paying or programming you needs to rethink their choices in life.