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As a US resident, if I rolled a large boulder downhill and fatally crushed a small child across the Mexican or Canadian border, would I be liable to extradition
by throwawaycuriou 5y ago
As a US resident, if I rolled a large boulder downhill and fatally crushed a small child across the Mexican or Canadian border, would I be liable to extradition?
- trasz 5y agoI’m guessing not, as the general rule is that US doesn’t extradite it’s citizens.
- relativ575 5y agoThe US does extradite its citizens: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972784817/2-americans-extradited-to-japan-on-accusation-of-aiding-carlos-ghosn-escape https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972784817/2-americans-extradi...
- pkaye 5y agoThe US does extradite to other countries depending on treaties. Recently there was two to Japan. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/business/carlos-ghosn-escape-extradition-japan.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/business/carlos-ghosn-esc...
- trasz 5y agoVery, very rarely. I’m guessing in this case extradition was deeply profitable to US for some reason.
- mjw1007 5y agoThere have been cases of US citizens literally shooting and killing Mexican children over the border, and extradition was refused. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernandez_v._Mesa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernandez_v._Mesa
- pkaye 5y agoThat is because the shooter was a border patrol agent and they get qualified immunity.
- trasz 5y agoAgain, this is something that only happens one way: if any other country was arbitrarily claiming immunity for their agent who murdered someone in the US, like the US did here, the US would carpet bomb them. The morally correct way would be probably to go full Mossad and either kidnap, or disappear the perpetrator, but that can’t happen for political reasons. Same reason why Blackwater terrorists avoid consequences.
- watwut 5y agoHow does that makes it better?
- hayzeus 5y ago"Asking for a friend."