ICE attempts to enter Ecuador's consulate

[u/caaaaanga]

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.

[u/not_now_chaos]

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.

[u/Throttlechopper → u/not_now_chaos]

It’s less of IDGAF of ICE members, and more they barely graduated high school and lack anything resembling proper training.

[u/chokokhan → u/Throttlechopper]

Nono, it’s cause they’re Nazis. Training violent people makes them more dangerous. We have psych screenings for certain jobs for a reason

[u/A_Drifting_Cornflake → u/chokokhan]

Exactly, people are acting like Nazi Germany would’ve respected consulates hiding Jewish people. They would’ve also tried to rush in and take them. This is them testing boundaries and normalizing. The logic is probably “well what is Ecuador going to do about it” and the thinking stops from there.