[Diddle E. Squat]

You are being completely misleading. They check the database for deadbeat parents before issuing a passport to prevent them from fleeing. From your source:

After the hearing Moss told United Press International that the department already checked all passport applicants against a database that contained the names of nearly 50,000 fugitives, and 3 million deadbeat parents who owed child support...."It's not that (people in the database or on the terrorist watchlist) automatically won't get a passport," said Moss, "they're just people we want to take a closer look at." He pointed out that those who owed child support were ineligible to be issued a passport until they had paid or in some states until they had made arrangements to do so. "We don't want to issue a passport to anyone who is going to use it to flee the jurisdiction, or skip out on child support they owe," he said.

[marty60]

Details, DETAILS. Facts are your friend. But apparently not to some.

[Orlando]

I wasn't trying to be misleading.
thank you

[in the Arena]

Beat me to it...Lots of speculation with nobody actually reading the article...

[popdonnelly]

Sounds to me like this article is conflating two different lists.

[Brilliant]

A better idea would be to give them only a one way passport.

[Old Professer]

We don't want to issue a passport to anyone who is going to use it to flee the jurisdiction, or skip out on child support they owe,"

So, we put paper fences in the way of those who might wish to leave while we lay down welcome mats woven of written promises for those who want desperately to come in without proper documentation; interesting.

[Centurion2000]

He pointed out that those who owed child support were ineligible to be issued a passport until they had paid

So much for freedom of movement that is a pillar of the US citizen's rights. This makes a deadbeat dad little more than a slave and a prisoner inside the US.