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What's the deal with diplomatic immunity?

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Is Diplomatic Immunity Going to Change?

A Mexican attaché was stopped for stealing cell phones from a plane in 2008. He waved his diplomatic immunity pass and they had to let him go. The same system that keeps this global spycraft agreement alive is also the same system that allows diplomats to get away with things like driving their Ferrari on residential streets.

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