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So by your logic if any country in the world approves some law that you are not even aware of, voted on a parliament (at best), that you have no voice nor vote on, then you are subject to whatever the f*ck they decided to do?. That's just plainly insane.

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That's the point of extradition agreements. If we're worried that Brazil's Senate has passed morally incompatible laws and wants to extradite folks from the US, then we won't agree. The State Department is (or tries to be) on top of any foreign legislation that would change our agreements.

I'm not talking about morality but legitimacy, why are you bound to follow laws that were not voted for representatives you chose on a country you never been?

They're legitimate because your representatives made extradition deals with said countries.

That's why I think there must be limits regarding what reasons a country can use to ask for an extradition, specially if you want to extradite a person that's not even an American for treason, espionage or stuff like that.

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