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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?

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There 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

That is because the shooter was a border patrol agent and they get qualified immunity.

Again, 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.

How does that makes it better?

I’m guessing not, as the general rule is that US doesn’t extradite it’s citizens.

The US does extradite its citizens:

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972784817/2-americans-extradi...

The 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-esc...

Very, very rarely. I’m guessing in this case extradition was deeply profitable to US for some reason.

"Asking for a friend."

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