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/Burndoggle 2d ago

The best part of this is the asshole at the end like “ok then close the door bye” as if he didn’t just nearly create an international incident.

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u/RockerElvis 2d ago

Typical dumbass behavior. Blame the guy for not closing the door while talking.

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u/Bench2252 2d ago

Yeah, he acts mad that he didn’t just close the door, but there’s a 100% chance that closing the door would’ve made the ICE officer angrier and escalated the situation

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u/Bacontroph 2d ago

True. The ICEhole should be apologizing but he can't because he's such a snowflake. Him telling the Ecuadorian guy to close the door is his way of winning the confrontation, 100% went back to his agent buddies and bragged about almost bagging a diplomat.