Seizing Their Passports Only Makes Activists More Determined

Seizing Their Passports Only Makes Activists More Determined

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast recently proposed the Department of State Reorganization Act. Though the provision was dropped after it faced backlash, the bill initially would have given the State Department the power to seize passports of citizens for support of terrorist organizations—a phrasing that critics feared would allow the Trump Administration to punish Americans for expressing pro-Palestinian opinions and other sp…