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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
(39,601 posts)I had to look this up to make sure it wasn't satire
FFS
UpInArms
(54,509 posts)We have to meet those quotas!
(Shakes head sadly at the disturbing disgusting world that TFG has created)
MichMan
(16,911 posts)UpInArms
(54,509 posts)I am not okay with people not paying support, but sending them away removes all ways to encumber any earnings
MichMan
(16,911 posts)Wouldn't that actually stop them from going away?
UpInArms
(54,509 posts)Is sending them away.
MichMan
(16,911 posts)Do you believe it should be repealed?
https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/3811
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
(16,911 posts)You can be deported with or without one.
UpInArms
(54,509 posts)I cannot seem to explain how to extract support monies to you.
Happy Hoosier
(9,455 posts)I actually support this policy. Too many deadbeat parents.
ret5hd
(22,364 posts)C_U_L8R
(49,143 posts)Greg_In_SF
(1,021 posts)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
(6,552 posts)As it stands, it's just anothr mechanism to remove people from thier homes, neighborhoods and nation.
MichMan
(16,911 posts)How about they support their children?
Torchlight
(6,552 posts)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
(16,911 posts)Greg_In_SF
(1,021 posts)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!
