Is this a trap? US Marshals Service puts up IML Complaint form.
As part of the International Megan’s Law, the US Marshals Service has been notifying receiving countries when a registrant is traveling. You can imagine how the immigration officials in a country you are traveling to will react when they receive a warning from the US Marshals that you are arriving.
Travelers have been intercepted upon arrival, interrogated and turned back on the next flight. In most cases, they are denied entry, unable to attend to business, visit family, attend a loved one’s wedding ceremony or simply see the world. The effects of IML have been devastating.
But is it possible that the US Marshals service has a complaint form where you can tell them about your ruined travel plans?!? A link on their site indicates they do: https://www.usmarshals.gov/sex-offender-complaint-form.html
Why? What are they going to do with this? Use it for entertainment? Send thank you notes to countries who reject registrants? I’m skeptical.
What do you think? Should we share the horror stories in the belief that they are genuinely concerned about all the negative consequences of these notifications? Or should we provide absolutely no non-required information to the government, assuming they will match the complaints with the notifications in an effort to arrest anyone who failed to notify.
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It has been said, the more things change the more they remain the same-or their is nothing new under the sun.
When Jews in Nazi Germany had A BIG J stamped on their passports, if they wanted to travel abroad they had to first get permission from the Gestapo-the Gestapo would notify the country they were going to.
Indeed and the US government has taken a page directly from the Nazi handbook and are actively applying it to its own citizens!
There is no outrage and there will be outrage. Obama signed it and you know that he could do no wrong. What a load of sh^t!
Anyone else finding no complaint form there to open?
Must be an April Fools joke.
HA HA, like you thought we gave a shit about you, your family’s and ruined travel plans.
Signed, The Feds
Nope the link doesn’t work – that’s the biggest F U of all of this!
The page is valid though.
Tell them nothing. They already have all your travel records and know where you went and when you returned (within 24 hours if you were turned back).
They are NOT going to address specific concerns so giving them this information only legitimizes this and makes it appear that they are concerned and were NOT the direct cause of the disruption – trying to pass the buck to the other countries immigration.
Nothing but a lie as I was denied entry into Argentina and the immigration officials told me “your paperwork is all in order to enter Argentina but the United States is requesting your return.”
Another potential issue I see is that we are all in the boat because of government and law enforcement lies already. This is simply an attempt to violate RSO for some technical violation – Never give LE anything you are not legally required to.
I wonder if the US actually requested your return or if that just the way the Argentines interpreted based on past experience with “green notices?”
I think it can not be a good thing. We could all band together and instead of filing specific complaints instead regale them with “What did you think would happen?” – laugh at them etc. Or we could just put do you think we are all stupid? lol Remember too then they will will have email addresses etc. However, we also run the risk that if it is legit they will think it has not hindered anyone. Also, they must have those statistics available – you can not tell me they do not get notification when a citizen is turned away from a country. Perhaps, they have realized that by doing this they have violated the right of every citizen holds to travel.
As much as I would love to put a comical spin to which they get the complaints from registrants, have meetings with coffee and doughnuts, and have good laughs per every complaint(which I’m sure they do anyway among themselves anyway). I don’t trust any level of law enforcement, especially when it has to do or deal with citizens that are already convicted/felons and even more so with IML and the Marshals.
The Marshals Service is the primary agency for “fugitive operations”. I’m sure they have other services(minor or secondary), but this is their main function. It seems to me, this would be just another avenue to provide them information on what you did during the travels by providing details of your complaints. Details that are not included or left out when asked basic questions. It is like you answering the questions in an interrogation without the actual interrogation – If you get me. Another form of Good cop/Bad cop. This is would be the pretentious Good cop. Oh, you don’t need a lawyer, just tell us and we can help you. We’ll vouch for you in court.
A complaint form where you can tell them about your ruined travel plans?!? As if they had a customer service department for those who are already convicted felons ?? Is almost laughable if you believe that.
I could be wrong, but I would rather take my chances in Federal court.
Just my 2 cents since you asked at the end of the post.
” but I would rather take my chances in Federal court. ”
Yup, same here. With an actual defense attorney and not the Marshal’s customer service department for ex-felons, as you put it quite humorously. lol.
Tell them nothing! Not a single thing!
Indeed, and/or a civil rights attorney as well.
Take your chances in Federal? Court? Seriously now fellas, the SAME Federal Courts that have allowed this monstrosity of all institutionalized hate to grow, nutured it, protected it? Like the Federal Courts give a goddamn about us. Let me remind you, this is the same legak system that brought you such banner cases as Dredd Scott, the Same Constitution that allowed LEGAL slavery, denied the vote from citizens convicted of NO crimes, stole all the Indian lands, broke EVERY SINGLE treaty they signed with them, the same government that ignored a legal Suprene Court order…Andrew Jackson? Friends, the ONLY rights you have are the ones you are willings to fight for, and, rest assurred, somebody is at this moment fighting desperately to take them.
That’s liability control, like when your work hangs up a “call to report safety violations” sign after someone gets hurt.
The page indicates they will only process complaints that regard the actual USMS notifications, no other part of the IML, and they even link to a FAQ.
What is expected to happen is that RSO’s who travel and wish to file a complaint will file improper complaints not exclusively related to USMS policies. If the USMS is called into court they can then demonstrate quantitatively that in spite of receiving one, or a hundred, or a million complaints, none clearly articulated a harm or restraint caused by the legislated obligation of the USMS.
What the solution is, is for FAC or NARSOL or John Q Registrant to draft a specific complaint about the USMS methods of notification, that only addresses the USMS’s obligations in clear direct examples, and make it available for all traveling registrants to sign and submit.
They are inviting any feedback, but they are only programed to receive very specific feedback. So we need a standardized way to send on their wavelength so that 100% of complaints address the USMS instead of the 1% if we all just toss out a grouchy letter about how it’s unjust.
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Alternately we could all just pledge to announce out of country travel, and cancel our trips 20 days latter and make some poor clerk at the Angel Watch Center send out a thousand green notices a week for the indefinite future, and let the State Department deal with foreign governments being alerted to traveling RSO’s who never arrive.
OOOOOO, I like that idea. Can we implement an FAC holiday for that? Like August 1st is ‘Make Fake Travel Plans Day’?
That is a great idea maybe twice a year or even quarterly
Yes a FAC fake travel plan day! Good thinking, give them something to do!