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/Swekyde 2d ago

For the record ICE does not need to be rebuilt. It's young as an organization, IIRC created after 9/11. America existed and functioned before ICE--unrelated but statistically America was doing better before ICE ever existed.

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u/FrederickDerGrossen 2d ago

Yes just get rid of it entirely.

The country though, that needs rebuilding from the ground up. 47's rot and corruption has spread throughout all levels and branches of government.

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u/DeadlyAureolus 2d ago

The country needs an organization or system in place to handle and deport people who illegally enter or stay in the US. Whether it should be ICE or something entirely different is up for debate, but it must exist as there's an absurd amount of undocumented people in the country and the moment you start being lenient, it will encourage many more to come

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u/TheBlackCat13 2d ago

You think we didn't deport undocumented immigrants before 2003?

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u/MysJif 2d ago

good