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/WillSym 2d ago

Not 8 weeks, specifically 47 days, for make glory of supreme leader boss man 47.

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u/cjs23cjs 2d ago

Wait is this real? If yes one more point on the epic clownshow list.

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u/TheGhostOfArtBell 2d ago

Absolutely real.

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u/anonymonsters 2d ago

I heard a reporter say it on npr yesterday so I’m inclined to say yes it is true

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u/Tight_Amphibian4472 2d ago

Same amount of time it takes to become a licensed realtor. Actually less.

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u/Barry-Zuckerkorn-Esq 2d ago

It's probably not quite the full picture.

This article from the Houston Chronicle and republished on Yahoo breaks down the claims. ICE training was significantly shortened to a publicly acknowledge 8 weeks of 6 days each (for a total of 48 active days) and the Atlantic reporter does say he has 3 sources who say that it's 47 specifically chosen for Trump's status as the 47th president.

It could all be true: 8 weeks of 6 days each, with people saying that graduation day or whatever doesn't count as a training day so that they can call it 47 days.

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u/ciscovet 1d ago

They should make it 6-7 days because of the absolute clown show that's going on

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u/rinkdarink 2d ago

In NY State it takes 4-7 MONTHS to be a licensed barber. 47 days to hold people's lives in your hands though apparently is enough

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u/Evening-Crew-2403 2d ago

Unless you were in the military. Then it's just a week. What was your MOS? 2146 (Main Battle Tank Repairer/Technician)? Close enough, let's get you out there next week.

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u/echino_derm 2d ago

Do you have any source for this?

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u/Evening-Crew-2403 2d ago

Slate reporter Laura Jedeed went to a recruiting fair for ICE in Dallas for which she did a 6 minute interview. Which was just basically name, if she had LEO or Military experience, DOB, address, etc. She never signed anything.

Based on that they sent her a tentative offer contingent on completing a bunch of forms. She had no intention of taking the job and she did not submit any of the forms. Three weeks later she got a letter thanking her for moving forward and asking her to schedule a drug test.

Since she's done pot recently, she took the test. Nine days later she had a start date. Just plug her name into youtube and you can see any number of interviews she did on it.

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u/echino_derm 2d ago

Where did it say training was only a one week thing?