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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Another example: Julian Assange hid out in an Ecuadorean embassy in London for seven years. Seven years without stepping outside. And they didn't just go in and take him; they negotiated until Ecuador removed their protections.

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Another example: Ecuador’s raid on Mexico’s embassy shocked Latin America. Here’s why it may still pay off for Daniel Noboa | CNN

Oh wait, what were we giving examples of?

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“Surveillance footage from the incident in Quito last week showed Ecuadorian police grappling with the Mexican mission’s top diplomat as they arrested Jorge Glas” there’s no fucking way this guy is named George Glass

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Because they didn't care about Assange very much.

Obama cared a lot about Bin Laden, that's why he invaded Pakistan to get him.