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Government: don't reproduce of you can't afford it.
Also government: why aren't people reproducing?
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.
They did but they aren't revoking current ones last I checked. My concern is they obviously want to revoke existing ones not just when I would have to renew it. If they do that and invalidate my current passport while I'm living out of country I will be immediately requesting asylum
So this is one of the levers they are using to remove non-GOP loyalists, assuming they get their citizenship identification requirements.
Explain how this is voter disenfranchisement?
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.
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.
They have been doing that here for decades. It is certainly not a "little -enforced" law.
It's to keep deadbeat parents from disappearing to another country and makes sense.
What doesn't make sense is that they will also revoke the drivers license. Which then makes it even less likely the parent will be able to make the child support.
The article states that this is currently done for people with $100,000 worth of payments, however they plan to make it so identification which might be required for voting according to PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS executive order will also be taken away if payments totaling $2,500 are missed.
I imagine that it is possible to have a clerical error and miss a single payment and have one's idenfication stolen by the regime.
Here, when my ex got 2 months behind, the FLSDU sent me a letter saying they contacted the state department (of the US) to let them know he (the ex) was not allowed to travel out of the country. So I guess that is different from revoking a passport (he didn't and doesn't have one). That would have been like $600 in arrears. I don't think deadbeat parents should be able to leave the country,
The drivers license thing I still think worse and so counterproductive, like WTF. I would never want him to lose that even if deadbeat, too many jobs here require a car.
Not voting SUCKS and voting is a civil right that needs to be protected, you cannot be forced to use a passport as ID when fewer than half of the adults in the US have a passport, that is crazy, it won't stand.
Being unable to get a job so you get even further in arrears and can't support yourself either, is worse.
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