State Dept. to REVOKE passports for THOUSANDS of parents who OWE CHILD SUPPORT | RISING

0:05 Okay.

0:05 The State Department has announced they will begin revoking

0:08 the passports of parents who owe child support money.

0:11 A State Department official said in a statement, quote,

0:14 "We are expanding a common sense practice that's been proven effective

0:17 at getting those who owe child support to pay their debt.

0:21 Under President Trump and Secretary Rubio's leadership,

0:23 we're working across agency lines to ensure American

0:26 children receive the support they need and deserve.

0:29 Once parents resolve their debts,

0:31 they can once again enjoy the privilege of a US passport.

0:35 Under a federal law set in 1996, parents who owe more than $2500 in unpaid

0:41 child support are subject to having their passport revoked.

0:43 Now, the State Department told the AP that this latest

0:46 initiative will focus on those who owe $100,000 or more,

0:50 but that the initiative will soon be expanded to those who owe more than 2500.

0:55 Do it.

0:56 I'm here for it.

0:57 I'm 100% here for it.

0:58 you owe money for your children and you're not paying child support.

1:02 One, you're probably a scumbag.

1:03 And two, you shouldn't be traveling abroad.

1:05 You don't have the means.

1:06 If you can't be paying for your kids, you should not be going to Cancun.

1:10 You should be making sure that your kids have what they need to go to school.

1:14 I am all for this.

1:15 Absolutely.

1:16 I I I say expand it to the $2,500.

1:18 I know they got to roll it out and ramp it up and make sure it goes,

1:21 but if you're not paying your child support,

1:23 that means your kids are missing out on something.

1:24 And don't get me wrong,

1:25 if you need to go to court and you need to adjudicate it,

1:27 to have your monthly amounts changed because of financial hardship,

1:31 there are means to do that and make sure that this is not used

1:33 as retaliatory or inappropriately used against a parent

1:37 who maybe is in a financial hardship.

1:39 But I can tell you, you don't pay your child

1:41 support and you owe somebody child support, you scumbag.

1:44 You scumbag and you don't deserve to travel.

1:47 Listen, there's not going to be a lot of push back, I don't think,

1:48 for most people to think that somebody is chilling in Maldes but also not,

1:53 you know, paying for their kids.

1:54 So, that's obviously, you know,

1:56 going to be going without saying that most people would

1:58 support this, especially when you talk about that $100,000 threshold,

2:01 like how long and how much do you make to not be paying?

2:04 Like, how ridiculous of a person are you?

2:06 It's kind of like insane.

2:08 Um, I think that what has been effective about this from what

2:11 I saw is that once this was announced by the State Department,

2:13 a lot of people were fearful about the idea of it even happening.

2:16 It hasn't even like before it's even enacted, it started quickly paying.

2:20 So, that's a good result of this.

2:22 the thousands of people that were on it started quickly trying to figure

2:24 out how to pay before they get forced to get their passport taken away.

2:27 So they don't want their lifestyle ruined.

2:29 Yeah, I do think when you go down to the 2500 and again I

2:32 agree that people should pay their child

2:34 support should not be having lavish lifestyles.

2:36 But when you go down to owing 2500 like let's say

2:38 that could be like one or two months mispayments because you have no

2:41 job or financial hardship or even like in this economy some people

2:44 had long-term jobs that are getting

2:46 cut by different sectors changing in industries.

2:49 Then you can get in a situation where

2:50 now your passport is revoked and you're not

2:52 able to pay because you actually have not

2:54 been able to pay that 2500 could be low.

2:56 If you think about somebody making six figures,

2:58 let's say, who was out of work for 6 months.

3:00 So now if you missed three months of payments

3:03 because you had literally zero income and you're on unemployment,

3:06 then what is the strategy there to not take get your passport taken away?

3:09 Not that you need the passport to go travel,

3:11 but also with the new laws under the Save Act,

3:14 there's some issues with if you get your passport taken away,

3:16 you might need your ID actually for that second verification

3:20 that you guys want to make sure that you can vote.

3:23 So, I don't think people should be disenfranchised because they didn't pay child

3:27 support if it's a financial hardship.

3:29 Now, if you're banking on if you're having

3:31 a vacation in Cancun and owe 100 grand,

3:33 that's totally different than the person who missed

3:35 a payment and is missing $2,500 as the minimum threshold.

3:38 So courts are there for that adjudication process

3:40 to make sure if you fall in financial hardship

3:42 that you're able to not get completely destroyed

3:45 in your efforts to try to provide for your children.

3:47 So that adjudication process already exists in the family

3:50 court system in every state in this country.

3:52 And to your point about passports and voting, if you got your passport,

3:55 it means you have multiple forms of identification

3:57 that the federal government already agrees with.

3:58 So you'll be fine if you don't have it.

4:00 And if you live in a state like the great state of New York,

4:02 where we both grew up,

4:04 uh you can get something called an enhanced ID that even without your passport,

4:07 allows you to cross over into Canada with just

4:10 that driver's license now instead of having to have a passport.

4:13 So even if you needed to do it,

4:14 there's still ways to get out of the country legally without

4:17 a passport just based on some of these like locations like New York.

4:21 I mean, we grew up going across into Canada pretty frequently.

4:24 It's not that hard.

4:24 I grew up closer to Toronto than I did to New York City.

4:27 That's how big the state is.

4:28 But again, even if you're not,

4:30 if you're at that $2,500 level and it's, you know, you were out of work,

4:34 that's where you need to go back

4:34 to court to family court and adjudicate the process.

4:37 It doesn't mean you can just stop simply stop paying.

4:40 And I think that's where a lot of people get themselves tripped up,

4:43 not only in the judicial system,

4:44 but in the family court system in this country is to say,

4:47 well, I can't pay this, so I'm just not going to.

4:49 That's not how that works.

4:50 That is a court order that mandates you provide

4:54 to a certain level of care for your children, for your offspring.

4:57 And if you're unable to do that, then you go to the court again and say,

5:00 "I need to have an adjustment on this based

5:03 on where my financial situations are." Now, this is all completely possible.

5:06 They don't ha, nobody has to lose their passport if they pay the child support.

5:11 And if you decide to have a kid,

5:13 you got 18 years of making sure you do right by them financially.

5:16 And so, you know what?

5:17 If that's $2,500 and you're in financial hardship,

5:20 you've already been in the f the family court system once because

5:23 you had this process adjudicated for you to end up with child support.

5:26 So, you should know to how to be able to go back

5:27 and talk to the judge and say you need a financial hardship change there.

5:31 And so, like I even on the low end of that, I

5:34 can't even make the argument to say you lose your passport,

5:36 you're not going to be able to vote.

5:37 And listen, be glad I'm not an elected official because I feel so

5:40 strongly that you have to pay your child support that if you don't,

5:43 I think you should lose your right to vote until you get right with

5:46 you're going too far.

5:47 We can't we're not the moral executioner in this country and say,

5:50 "Okay, well, morally, you're not a good person."

5:52 THIS IS WHY I'M not an elected official.

5:54 THIS IS WHY I'M NOT an elected official

5:55 because I think you should pay child support.

5:57 No, you you have a passport.

5:58 I have a passport.

5:58 They last 10 years.

5:59 Just because I had the documents a decade ago to get my stuff in order.

6:02 Doesn't mean I have them.

6:03 It means you could do it again.

6:04 You did it once.

6:04 I got all I know.

6:05 I'm just saying I'm just argu I'm being I'm playing a little devil.

6:08 So just because I had those documents doesn't mean I have them again.

6:10 And then also let's say there's people who are

6:12 out of work that let's say did have a highle

6:14 job and you need some of that identification to get

6:17 the next opportunity and now we're taking it away.

6:19 So you might be taking away the opportunity for them to make more money.

6:22 Let's say you work good luck then good luck explaining to your employer

6:24 as a high netw worth individual why you

6:27 don't have a passport and the means to identify

6:29 yourself because you got behind on your child support

6:32 because of financial hardship.

6:33 People who make a lot of money can also have financial hardship.

6:35 And at that point you need to go to the court costs money, right?

6:38 Getting back and forth costs money.

6:40 Getting a good lawyer costs money.

6:42 They're not free things.

6:43 Well, neither is a child and neither is

6:44 being a responsible enough adult to decide if you

6:47 want to have intercourse with another person

6:48 that the outcome could lead to another person being bored.

6:51 And so all of this like, oh man, it could be so hard.

6:54 Raising kids ain't easy,

6:55 but having fun that one night might have stuck you with 18 years.

6:58 Pay your child support.

7:00 And this is also why I should not be an elected

7:01 official because I would be very mean to people who don't pay.

7:04 Again, I want to go on record and say I'm for this.

7:07 I think people should pay and should not

7:08 be gallivanting the globe if they're not paying.

7:11 I don't even I also don't think we should stop people's ability

7:15 to find new work which potentially could be an outcome of this or stop

7:19 their ability to uh have access to voting and other things

7:22 that a passport is needed because of this like they for example my daughter

7:29 was registering for school right she needs a passport and so some

7:33 jobs that are freelance you need a passport social security card so if

7:36 you misplace your social security card you need a PASSPORT SO NOW

7:39 YOU CAN'T EVEN WORK YOU CAN'T AT WHAT POINT DO WE SAY adult

7:43 we have to make sure that we're not responsible.

7:44 Okay.

7:45 You got to be responsible to keep

7:47 your stuff together and pay your child support.

7:49 Welcome to being an adult.

7:50 I can't or don't have kids.

7:52 Or don't or don't have kids.

7:53 There's so many options.

7:54 All right.

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