It’s ridiculous for alien criminal defendants to invoke this treaty on appeal when they never made any request to contact their country’s embassy before they went on trial. How is the state of Texas supposed to know that a prisoner is not a US citizen if that prisoner does not inform the state of that fact?
Under amnesty and sanctuary provisions of many communities, he is to be accepted as a citizen (even though he may not vote).
He’s treated as a local and suddenly there is an outcry.