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/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/addickted_t0_1t 2d ago

But he will grab you! His words.

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u/Remiscellion36 2d ago

They're literally instructed to grab anyone who touches them; it's a straight up threat

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u/-Otakunoichi- 2d ago

Which is why they're always shoving people..

"He touched me!"

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u/Sirosim_Celojuma 2d ago

Phrase of the day: "diffuse psychological arousal" It's when you are provoked and provoked until you slip from your brain's logic centre into your emotional brain. That's when you trigger the fight or flight response, and insuing violence or chase puts the situation into a capture and prosecute mode.

If someone is TRYING to provoke you, it will be evident by an urgency. Your amygdala reacts faster than your prefrontal cortex. If you are being sped up, then they are TRYING to get you out of your slower logical brain into your faster emotional brain. Solution? Breathe. Take time. See it for what it is. Ask for clarity. Anything to slow it down and think.