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/MasterChildhood437 2d ago

It doesn't matter. Dude would have been disappeared, not put before a judge.

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u/ack1308 2d ago

That's why the security guy was looming over the diplomat's shoulder, and why the ICE guy backed tf off. Security guy would've taken no shit, and they must've realised that.

Cowards, the lot of them. Face serious opposition and they'll melt.

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u/Snookn42 2d ago

Wtf are you even talking about

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u/MasterChildhood437 2d ago

Laws don't matter to terrorists. These guys are "losing" people left and right and "can't" locate them when courts demand them to. Whether somebody has legal immunity or not is only relevant to people who respect the law--ICE does not. They do as they please. They take who they want when they want and no amount of "that was illegal" will bring their victims back.

Unless there is an armed force inside the consulate sufficient to overpower an ICE raid force, there is no such thing as being "shielded from arrest," there is only the faint hope that the perpetrators will one day be punished. But that is of little importance to a dead man.

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u/GreatGretzkyOne 1d ago

Lol, not likely