On October 30th, the State Department announced that passports of people who are required to register as sex offenders because of an offense involving a minor will be marked with a “unique identifier” that will read:
The bearer was convicted of a sex offense against a minor, and is a covered sex offender pursuant to 22 United States Code Section 212b(c)(l).
The law which occasions this requirement, International Megan’s Law (IML), was enacted in 2016 under President Obama. In addition to the identifier requirement, IML allows for existing passports of those on the registry to be revoked, and imposes criminal penalties on them for failure to provide the government with advance notice of international travel plans.
These are the articles you just don’t see enough of in major publication.
“The U.S. Government Accountability Office and State Department quietly admitted that there is no mass exodus of people on the registry traveling to sex tourism destinations to engage in rape and child molestation:”
Enough said.
The author is on the registry in KY. He finished law at the University of Kentucky, but he’s been banned from becoming an attorney.
I guess the only job we’re allowed to do is dishwasher, ditch digger, or roofing. I think we should all just decide to Break Bad if they won’t allow us a legal path to earn a living.
https://amp.usatoday.com/story/5236799/
What I found most reassuring of this op-ed is that it explains that if there is any recidivism among registrants, they are nearly all for technical violations and not for new sex crimes, which is a detail nearly all articles (even those favoring repealing sex offender laws) omit.
How long until RCs who wish to leave this country and start anew in another will be left with literally no choice but to try to sneak out, ala N. Korea? Literal refugees (who would be considered “absconders” by this regime) from a country that was once the shining beacon of freedom and human rights. If this IML BS isn’t stopped, this is exactly what will happen.
I’ve been considering leaving and starting over elsewhere for quite some time. If I’m unable to do so normally, as any other free citizen, it’s looking increasingly like I would have to find other ways. I’m still blown away that the land of the free is making it de facto illegal for free citizens to travel and leave as they wish.