But first, please, citation on how this "statutory or case law" could apply in the first place. It has no more jurisdiction over the kind of people described than the constitution. (Neither, of course, does the original claim that they violated US law.)

This American habit of claiming global hegemony for American law is, on the whole, about equally fucking annoying whichever side it comes from: Yank law enforcement blithely assuming a right to arrest someone who's never set foot in America isn't really all that much worse than Yank liberals who leap to the conclusion that the only defense such victims have is the Holy Constitution.