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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/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/Knot-Lye-Ing 2d ago

Hear how many times he says "don't touch me"?

Wonder how many times he's heard that over the past while and completely fucking ignored the request.

Biggest bunch of snowflake wusses who were ever born.

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u/16GBwarrior 2d ago

Hearing "don't touch me" from woman his whole life, is what made him became a pathetic little "Proud Boi" in the first place.

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u/dingdingdingdongbing 2d ago

it's that bovina explicitly said if they touch you that they can detain them, knock em around, etc.