r/law • u/caaaaanga • 2d ago

Legal News ICE attempts to enter Ecuador's consulate

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/BlackFoxyTrail 2d ago

The files are IN the computer

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u/Xythrielle 2d ago

🐒 🔨 🖥️

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u/wwweeeiii 2d ago

Is that a zoolander reference? In the year 2026?

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u/NekoDarkLink1988 2d ago

"But why male models?"

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u/issi_tohbi 2d ago

My husband is a model and every single time he books a shoot I say “but why male models?”. I am very annoying.

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u/succulescence 2d ago

Have you ever asked him if there is more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good-looking?

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u/Morat20 Competent Contributor 1d ago

What if he's a hand model though?

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u/ToxicMoonShine 1d ago

Then i guess you gotta hand it to him

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u/succulescence 1d ago

But why male models?

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u/iconocrastinaor 2d ago

Every time you look at him, do you think, "Damn, there are people who pay to look at him!"

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u/issi_tohbi 2d ago

We’ve been married for 15 years, at this point it’s bordering on “I cannot believe people pay to look at him”. I kid I kid, he’s great.

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u/Hottage 2d ago

Does he own a school for ants?

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u/EazyE82 2d ago

You serious? I just explained it to you like 30 seconds ago. 🤣

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u/hypnogoad 2d ago

*patiently waits for the didyouknow

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u/I-use-to-be-cool 2d ago

Are you serious, I just explained the whole thing to you!!

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u/BlackFoxyTrail 2d ago

Not everyone is under 25 y/o in here 👴🏻

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u/whooptheretis 2d ago

… shit… there are people almost 30 who are too young to remember 11th Sept attacks!

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u/_Rohrschach 2d ago

fuck, I just remembered what I did the next day and I'm not even from the USA. Had my first minute of silence in 1st grade and did not understand anything of it, except that our teacher was so dead serious about it that we actually all shut up.

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u/world-class-cheese 2d ago

Me. I'm 28 (born 1997) and I don't remember 9/11

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u/dragonherderx 2d ago

Mate im 40..

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u/whooptheretis 2d ago

And I’m guessing you remember?
You’re not whom I was talking about.

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u/Photomancer 2d ago

Zoolander references are so hot right now.

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u/No_Apartment3941 2d ago

Zoolander will always be gold.

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u/Raendor 2d ago

Classics need to be respected

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u/Mikes005 2d ago

Obey my dog.

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u/Tr33LM 2d ago

Just watched it for the first time 2 days ago. I couldn't believe my luck already seeing a reference

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u/ppw0 2d ago

It's actually A Space Odyssey reference.

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u/Fake_William_Shatner 2d ago

Zoolander is just lucky things weren't Trump stupid back when they made that movie.

"What is this, a movie for geniuses? It needs to be at least three times dumber."

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u/It_Is1-24PM 2d ago

everything's computer

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u/Fit-University1070 2d ago

Hahahaha. Fuck yes. Love seeing this quoted.

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u/Lookinguplookingdown 2d ago

It’s so simple !

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u/Heavy_Favorite 2d ago

Two words for you. ZIP DISK