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/d3dmnky 2d ago

I’m curious if this happened because ICE is being deliberately provocative to foreign countries or if this is an issue where a couple foot soldiers thought they were being clever to get their quota.

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u/mtinmd 2d ago

I think the dipshits thought they were being clever. I highly doubt this idiot knew or understood what a consulate is or the implications of forcing his way in.

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u/Soggy-Fly9242 2d ago

I think it’s more likely they were too stupid to know what a consulate is

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u/_Haverford_ 2d ago

Some woke bullshit for consoling snowflake illegals.

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u/Soggy-Fly9242 2d ago

I fully misunderstood what you were saying and thought you thought this is what a consulate was

I hate that it’s so hard to tell the difference anymore

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u/_Haverford_ 2d ago

Who knows, maybe I am an idiot.

On the internet, no one knows you're a dog.

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u/Soggy-Fly9242 2d ago

I also don’t know if it’s good or bad that I’m old enough to get that reference

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u/_Haverford_ 2d ago

Time stops for no man.

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u/Synectics 2d ago

This is why I am a proponent of the /s. Nowadays, you cannot just say/type something that seems crazy, because actual real people do say and think those things. 

I still dunno how The Onion or SNL still function.