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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHeard this on the radio but can't find another source. Has anyone else read
anything on this?
(My family is staying put down there so I don't have any first hand knowledge of this.)
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/352824-trump-administration-forcing-puerto-rico-evacuees-to-pay-for
The Trump administration is reportedly forcing evacuees from Puerto Rico
and Dominica to sign promissory notes ensuring full repayment for
transportation costs and is keeping evacuees' passports as collateral.
MarketWatch, citing the State Department's website, on
Thursday that the administration is using a longstanding but discretionary
policy to ensure that evacuees pay transportation costs, which are based
on the price of the last commercial one-way, full-fare (not discounted)
economy ticket prior to the crisis.
According to the State Department's website, the policy applies to all
evacuees who boarded U.S. government aircraft or other vehicles to
evacuate. Evacuees' passports will restricted until payment is received.
Upon evacuation, a Department of State official must limit an evacuees
passport. In order to obtain a new passport, an evacuee must arrange
payment as agreed upon via the promissory note," the reads.
When those repayments can be made is a different story.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)any other sources or confirmation.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)can only hope it gets waved but not holding my breath.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Shit show does not even begin to describe this...
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)I have to wonder who cooked up. what "crucial businessl was happening on that little island. And why they claimed it "saved him time" if he lounged around by the shore for 36 hours. How many actual sick could be saved instead for that cost?
B2G
(9,766 posts)It needs to be waived.
According to the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Consular Affairs:
Anyone evacuated on U.S.-government coordinated transport, including charter and military flights, must sign an Evacuee Manifest and Promissory Note (Form DS-5528) note prior to departure.
The promissory note obligates an evacuated person to repay the cost of the transportation to the U.S. government.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mark-cuban-pitbull-step-up-but-trump-administration-making-puerto-rico-evacuees-pay-2017-09-27