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Haig v Agee

There's nothing in the Supreme's Court decision that states foreign travel is a "privilege" for US citizens. Only that the Executive branch has the authority to revoke an individual passport if there is a likelihood of "serious damage" to national security or foreign policy.

"The Court noted Congress's historical recognition of 'Executive authority to withhold passports on the basis of substantial reasons of national security and foreign policy.' The Court further held that because the regulations were limited to cases in which there was a likelihood of 'serious damage' to foreign policy"

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1980/80-83

Haig v. Agee is not a good precedent, as Agee was a (disgruntled) employee of the CIA, and quite a high-level one at that, who apparantly had been leaking through other anti-CIA people/organizations. I haven't read the decision, but there was an immediate national security reason for revoking his passport.

One would assume this is a simple 4th and 5th Amendment argument, but in your defense, the "right" to travel abroad is not enumerated in the Constitution.

Since 9/11, Congress has passed many laws, such as the Patriot Act, giving broad powers to the US security state, and DHS has implemented many other regulations, such as "Real ID" and "No Fly Lists." Another is a DHS rule that went into effect in February 2008, under which all travelers now require the express prior permission of the U.S. Government to board any aircraft or maritime vessel that will enter or leave the United States. That "permission" is represented by your passport.

The Supreme Court has never ruled against such DHS actions, and Congress has only given more power to DHS to create them in the name of "national security."

So we are in a "no-mans-land" on this issue.

Do not doubt the (neo) marxist DC cabal will use this power ever-more in the future unless actively denied the power.