Originally Posted by
AllieKat
Last I checked, people can still apply for passports. A passport card, if you only need to travel in the US, is something like $30. Cheaper than a driver's license.
This. It's a violation of liberty, it serves little point, but it's a clickbait headline - no one is being grounded. They have to shell out another $30 on top of their plane ticket. A few more papers to file. Annoying, bureaucratic, and stupid... but not grounding.
Tens of millions of natural-born US citizens don't have sufficient documents in hand available to apply for and get a passport card within the next 4-6 weeks for just $30.
Even a US passport card renewal costs me more than my driving license renewal costs me.
Denying people freedom of movement using commercial air travel services because of the absence of specific forms of ID is a grounding. But even some people with "REAL ID" are grounded by the DHS.