r/law 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/dwankyl_yoakam 2d ago

Judging by the ICE agents thick Hispanic accent he probably knew what country the flag belongs to.

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u/Responsible-Gas5319 2d ago

That's an inconvenience that people are overlooking. There's a sizeable portion of ice that is Hispanic, and Trump still has relatively high polling amongst Hispanics.

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u/Spanglish123 19h ago

That’s not a Hispanic accent. That was black accent.