State Department to revoke more passports from people who haven't paid child support

[MichMan]

The State Department is planning to revoke more passports from people with large amounts of outstanding unpaid child support.

Individuals who owe more than $100,000 will be among the first groups targeted by the State Department for passport revocation, a U.S. official told the Associated Press. Those who enroll in a payment plan could avoid revocation.

Three U.S. officials told the wire that the Trump administration is planning to revoke travel documents under the 1996 passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.

The act authorizes the Passport Denial Program, which allows government officials to revoke travel documents for parents with unpaid child support totaling more than $2,500. In the past, passports were only revoked in the midst of a renewal or when someone sought consular services. However, the Trump administration is now planning to seek out those in arrears, per the AP.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/state-department-to-revoke-more-passports-from-people-who-haven-t-paid-child-support/ar-AA1Wa6il?ocid=BingNewsVerp

[leftstreet]

1. Whoa

I had to look this up to make sure it wasn't satire

FFS

[UpInArms]

2. Quotas, people!

We have to meet those quotas!

(Shakes head sadly at the disturbing disgusting world that TFG has created)

[MichMan]

9. You are OK with people not paying to support their children?

[UpInArms]

10. No ...

I am not okay with people not paying support, but sending them away removes all ways to encumber any earnings

[MichMan]

11. How is not issuing a US Passport sending someone away?

Wouldn't that actually stop them from going away?

[UpInArms]

13. Revoking passports

Is sending them away.

[MichMan]

14. Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998 passed the House 402-16 and was unanimous in the Senate

Do you believe it should be repealed?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/3811

[UpInArms]

15. No

Please understand what I am saying, if earnings can be liened upon for support, those earnings must be made within the jurisdiction. If you deport someone, those earnings will no longer be available.

If the courts and the claimants have failed to place those liens, they should rectify their errors.

If an earner is removed, that possibility leaves with them.

Everyone is responsible for paying and collecting.

[MichMan]

16. What does any of that have to do with having a passport though?

You can be deported with or without one.

[UpInArms]

17. Nevermind

I cannot seem to explain how to extract support monies to you.

[Happy Hoosier]

19. Ummm... revoking passports is noit deportation. I'm confused.

I actually support this policy. Too many deadbeat parents.

[ret5hd]

3. Keep pretending that fence was to keep people out!

[C_U_L8R]

4. What about offenders who won't pay their fines?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll_v._Donald_J._Trump

[Greg_In_SF]

5. Good!

The Child Support Recovery Act of 1992 made it a federal offense to willfully fail to pay support for a child living in another state. This law was later strengthened by the Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998, which introduced felony-level offenses for the most serious cases of child support evasion.

[Torchlight]

6. Apply it evenly and fairly, or do not apply it

As it stands, it's just anothr mechanism to remove people from thier homes, neighborhoods and nation.

[MichMan]

7. How is not issuing a passport removing people from their homes and neighborhoods?

How about they support their children?

[Torchlight]

8. It will be a tool to remove 'undesirables'

I tend to believe it's naive to think it will be used by the administation for its stated purpose. If I thought it would be used toi target all deadbeats, sure. But I don't hold that particular opinion (rafts are not my thing...)

[MichMan]

12. Still not understanding how taking away a Passport is removing anyone?

[Greg_In_SF]

18. Well, if they are removed

from their home and neighborhood because they are in prison for not paying child support, I have absolutely no problem with that.

In fact, if all that happens is the revocation of their passport, they got off lucky!

[TommyT139]

20. If revoking passports means a person cannot vote

...or that they cannot prove they are a citizen, for purposes of employment, say, then this is just as messed up as any other way that the Trumpists are chipping away at the number of people who can vote.

This says absolutely nothing about paying child support. (I mean, duh.) But consider this: if the regime can essentially take anyway your ID papers for nonpayment of child support, what is to stop them from preventing people who are behind in their student loans from having a valid passport?

As long as the Trumpists are trying to require passports or other proof of citizenship to vote, any reason for the passport to be taken away should be resisted.

If any idea that comes from the Trump regime sounds like a good one, keep looking for how it benefits the regime's long term plans.