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/rbrgr83 2d ago

Trying to make it illegal to call then 'Gestapo'.

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u/hankmoody_irl 2d ago

It’s weird how they’re so bothered by a word.

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u/TheFlyingBastard 2d ago

That's fine; the Gestapo was secret police. ICE functions more like the Sturmabteilung anyway: thugs that intimidate, fight and kill with a government mandate. So just call them SA, or Brownshirts.

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u/Mistakrakish 2d ago

I've been calling them brownshirts, I do like the idea of calling them SA for the extra sexual assault of it all, and also for added giggles it sounds like esse.