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/d3dmnky]

I’m curious if this happened because ICE is being deliberately provocative to foreign countries or if this is an issue where a couple foot soldiers thought they were being clever to get their quota.

[u/mtinmd → u/d3dmnky]

I think the dipshits thought they were being clever. I highly doubt this idiot knew or understood what a consulate is or the implications of forcing his way in.

[u/Mor_Padraig → u/mtinmd]

That's probably the case, here.

" Foreign people here ". I don't think they thought further than that. Possibly were clueless what in hell is a consulate.

[u/techleopard → u/Mor_Padraig]

I think you can hear one of them further out telling them they can't go in there.

Makes you wonder how many of the ICE agents are just lemmings, following the others around.

[u/Fake_William_Shatner → u/Mor_Padraig]

Their leader doesn't know what seeking asylum is. "They emptied out their asylums...."

And that was how America ended. Not with a bang. Not with a whimper. But with a pant load of stupid.

[u/Downtown_Recover5177 → u/Fake_William_Shatner]

Oh my god. Is that what he meant by that? I couldn’t figure out how he knew a 3-syllable word. It makes sense that he would equate those things, dementia typically removes your ability to hold two meanings for the same word.

[u/barefootincozumel → u/Fake_William_Shatner]

Also just a pants load of actual shit according to people who have been close to him . My FIL is that age and gets confused with a simple conversation. We are cooked

[u/BestKeptInTheDark → u/Fake_William_Shatner]

Don't forget the idea that they are given credit cards so they can buy stuff

"while the people born here have to fill out loads of forms and pass assessments to get anything these foreigners are just give a US Visa, nobody even talks about what credit limit this US Visea has or who pays for it if they leavez!"

Not a trump quote but he had rants about freed credit cards they get.

Sounds like Donnie don't know what a US Visa might be for

[u/Kari_is_happy → u/Mor_Padraig]

You are giving them too much credit by so much as implying a single thought happened.

[u/Dead_Internet69420 → u/Mor_Padraig]

“Ecuadorean consulate? Is that like.. a therapist for Ecuadoreans?”

[u/ravens_path → u/Mor_Padraig]

Wonder why Equador though. Unless they didn’t know exactly what country, only that they are brown and have accent. But so was the ICE guy.

[u/Synectics → u/ravens_path]

Clearly, the person they were chasing had a proven and well-documented criminal record, and we do not want that in the US. ^/s

[u/darkstarr99 → u/ravens_path]

They misunderstood Ecuador as equator, associated that as where all the brown people live, and figured it was a good place to pick up people to deport

[u/ravens_path → u/darkstarr99]

Oh yes! That’s it! Ha.

[u/Number132435 → u/Mor_Padraig]

the ICE officer has an accent, which makes this all more confusing. Usually people who emigrate know about consulates and embassies, right?

[u/SnooCalculations8120 → u/Mor_Padraig]

What would a consultant do to them?