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.
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.”