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Ecuador’s minister of foreign affairs has filed a protest with the U.S. Embassy after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tried to enter the Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis without permission Tuesday.

A video of the attempt on social media shows a consulate staffer running to the door to turn the ICE agents away, telling them, “This is the Ecuadorian consulate. You’re not allowed to enter.”

One ICE officer can be heard responding by threatening to “grab” the staffer if he touched the agent before agreeing to leave.

International law generally prohibits law enforcement authorities from entering foreign consulates or embassies without permission, though sometimes permission may be assumed granted for life-threatening emergencies, like fires.

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[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The US is heading out of the door of the civilised world.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Until they get universal healthcare they haven’t ever been part of the civilized world as far as I’m concerned. It doesn’t even have to be that good, it just has to be not completely absent(the ACA does not do enough to redeem the rest).

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Last year? Not, like, constantly prior to that?

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Obviously it's a sliding scale but, IMO, up until the second Bush Jr presidency, it seemed the USA had some excuse to do their atrocities one could use to look the other way.

Things continue to decline faster and faster but now, with the second election of the Felon Pedophile, the USA showed the world they are completely lost: morally, ethically, politically, etc

[–] nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

From native genocide and chattel slavery to imperialist massacres, Vietnam, and the Middle East, it kinda feels like there were just a few good moments tucked into a pretty rough history.

For me, the current, open, cascade failure just highlights how thin the veneer over hundreds of years of atrocities has been.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

absolutely and keep in mind that it would be different for people on different generations... I only read about the realities of Vietnam decades later as an adult so it came to bear in my opinion MUCH MUCH later than it should have