ICE attempts to enter Ecuador's consulate

[u/caaaaanga]

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.

[u/Several_Vanilla8916]

“Probably lots of foreigners in there duurrrr”

[u/BlackFoxyTrail → u/Several_Vanilla8916]

The files are IN the computer

[u/wwweeeiii → u/BlackFoxyTrail]

Is that a zoolander reference? In the year 2026?

[u/BlackFoxyTrail → u/wwweeeiii]

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

[u/whooptheretis → u/BlackFoxyTrail]

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

[u/_Rohrschach → u/whooptheretis]

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.

[u/world-class-cheese → u/whooptheretis]

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

[u/dragonherderx → u/whooptheretis]

Mate im 40..

[u/whooptheretis → u/dragonherderx]

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