Smith’s Law Results in Important New Protections for Children Against Predators

A new passport identifier for convicted pedophiles will help protect children from pedophiles looking to travel abroad, possibly to abuse children, said Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), author of legislation to create the identifier.

“Child predators thrive on secrecy—a secrecy that allows them to commit heinous crimes against the weakest and most vulnerable,” Smith stated at a press conference on Friday in Trenton, N.J., about the passport protections included in his International Megan’s Law, which had several other provisions aimed at protecting children.
“We know from law enforcement and media documentation that Americans on U.S. sex offender registries are caught sexually abusing children in Asia, Central and South America, Europe—everywhere,” Smith said. “Again, we have a duty to protect the weakest and most vulnerable from abuse.” Full Press Release (official web site)


From Rep. Smith’s official web site

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The IML is sure going to do a lot of major damage on American citizens that are on the registry and it’s not a matter of keeping the world safe from predators, it is due to Chris Smith’s rhetorical statement that is base on junk science and phony statistics just to prove that registered citizens that are traveling internationally are a threat worldwide that has to be neutralized which is not true. One day he will be called out and confronted and the IML will be repealed with the angel watch center being shut down.

The legal argument should be quite simple. This legislation has the chilling effect of permanently confining – for life – a segment of the population convicted of specified crimes, within the boundaries of the United States.

Evidence of this is demonstrated through the widespread instances of registered citizens who have been denied entry into countries while traveling. The marker isn’t even needed, they’ve already flagged those subject to IML provisions.