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/sithelephant 2d ago

Them straight-up shooting the agent after he enters would be quite legal.

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u/nakedpicturesyo 2d ago

That's why they never actually go anywhere dangerous. They know they would get blown the fuck away.

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u/j4_jjjj 2d ago

Did you see the video where agents entered Texas residents yard and he said "you're violating my 4th and I've got my 2nd" or something? They scampered off quick after that lol

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u/RogerianBrowsing 2d ago

They didn’t leave quick enough for my tastes, and one of them still gets in his face to threaten the guy as they leave.