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.
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.
I’m wondering what proportion of people who owe that much even have a passport to begin with. I, too, am scratching my head at the idea of tying these two seemingly disparate things together