But why not violate its own laws? Countries make and break their own laws all the time? Cops drive through red lights by flicking on their lights for a minute, surely a country can wave him onto a plane without checking his papers.
Country's laws are a bit different, simply because a country has virtually absolute legal power over its territory. Countries can and do punish people for breaking laws that one cannot feasibly know they were breaking. Does any human know all the laws in the United States? Would that even be physically possible?
Is that really true? My understanding for example in the USA is that if you violate the laws in another country, you automatically violate the laws in the USA (under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/foreign-corrupt-pract...) - or is that really just limited to bribery? AFAIK some other countries have similar provisions.
How exactly do they do that? Do they extend the american laws outside our borders and let our police raid international sites without international knowledge/assistance?
Mainly because our laws are voted on by our own citizens and because the rest of the world doesn't accept our laws and doesn't have a say in creating them. Your statement seems nonsensical.
If there is an action that breaks the law of two countries there can be joint law enforcement activities. The US cannot punish actions that are legal in one country but illegal in the United States by acting in that foreign country.
No country does that, they just set examples of people who break draconian laws, which is effective as long as you don't count all the people trying to leave the country.
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