The revocation program, plans for which were first reported by the AP in February, soon will be greatly expanded to cover parents who owe more than $2,500 in unpaid child support — the threshold set by a little-enforced 1996 law, the State Department said.
Thanks for making me even happier that I don’t have kids.
This week in “surely we can make this only affect black people”
Government: don’t reproduce of you can’t afford it.
Also government: why aren’t people reproducing?
the people cheering this on like it’s actually a good thing are inept. the government doesn’t give a single fuck about children, let alone their parents not getting the money they deserve. this is to strip voting rights from even more people, that’s literally it.
The majority of Americans don’t have passports, what has a passport got to do with it?
My question is, how does this get child support to the kid? I guess the parent can’t flee abroad but is that an inherent risk of parents owning 2500 bucks? This isn’t a solution to the problem at hand
It doesn’t. This does nothing to get people to pay their child support, and the people who can’t afford to pay it aren’t in any position to flee the country. This law isn’t about getting them to pay child support, it’s about stripping rights from the kind of people who can’t or don’t.
Unitedstatesians tend to have a hard-on for punitive policies. That’s it. That’s the story.
They only care when they can use it as a bludgeon against the general public. See also: the push for “age checks” on the internet. In this case, they are criminalizing poverty.
The bullshit becomes obvious when we start talking about things like “school lunch debt.”
Wonder how long it’ll take for them to use this precedence to revoke my trans passport while I’m living out of country
Didn’t they already say it has to match your sex assigned at birth? Sounds like next time you go to renew it.
Explain how this is voter disenfranchisement?
I think the logic is based on the SAVE Act: if it passes, you effectively need a passport to vote.
But it has not yet passed.
You need a passport to vote?
Even though an executive order is not a law, the regime has been acting like it is.
Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections
Any in-person vote without a valid ID (passport is one of the few considered enough) will be challenged. Not to mention the challanges to mail in ballots.
States do control their elections, but plenty of regime friendly states will just let the regime control it. Allowing the regime to make challanges in key areas easier.
And crucially, elections are already close – even more so because of the electoral college. So most likely, the regime has already secured wins in the midterms, because those have to happen until those people notice that they can’t vote anymore.
36 states require identification to vote. A passport is ID. Maybe a very small percentage of passport holders don’t have a second ID but for those that only have the one is being behind on child support a sufficient reason to take away someone’s vote?
36 states require identification to vote. A passport is ID.
Gonna stop everyone right here and mention that ID requirements were not the norm until recently. It is, and always was, possible to prove citizenship without issuance of an ID (let alone a photo ID). Studies have shown that it does very little to reduce voter fraud and only disenfranchises vulnerable populations.
Secondly, elections are the purview of the states. Any requirements that give feds control of the voting process are unconstitutional. A federal passport is US property issued at the discretion of the government and can be revoked at any time (as shown in this article), and is therefore unconstitutional.
Of course not. Taking away the vote of a US citizen (with very, very specific exceptions) is unconstitutional. We only got here because of years of getting away with unconstitutional shit. It won’t change while the criminals are in charge.
Well, gestures at fucking everything.
