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William Worthy, a Negro reporter for the Baltimore Afro-American, returned to the United States from Cuba on October 10, 1961. He carried a birth certificate as proof of citizenship, a landing card and a customs declaration. He had no passport. Following a brief interrogation by immigration officers he was admitted to the U.S. But the next April a Florida grand jury indicted him for entry into the U.S. without a valid passport, allegedly a violation of the McCarran Act of 1952. On August 8 of the same year Worthy was found guilty and sentenced to three months imprisonment...
...purpose to "foil leftist student's plans" to travel to Cuba. I firmly believe that the government has no right to consider political motivation when considering passport validation. Travel is a right, not a privilege reserved for those whose politics measure up to pre-determined standards...
Peacetime restrictions on travel are something relatively new. Before the 1950's, a passport was a sort of identification card, a request by one government of another to grant a citizen safe passage. In the past decade or so, however, passports have increasingly come to be regarded officially as permits to leave the country...
...that we should not be afraid. I do not pretend that I am not afraid--nor that you are not afraid," Driver said. It is not easy to lose a passport nor to be confined to a place, however the Minister of Injustice chooses to define it, nor to be deported, nor to be imprisoned, and I for one, am afraid of all these...
...rarely ticket diplomatic drivers, knowing that they will use their immunity to avoid answering the summons. When a British correspondent had the bumper ripped off his car by a speeding Ivory Coast diplomat passing on the wrong side, the police waved on the African at the flash of his passport, but corralled the newsman as a "trouble maker." Realizing that immunity can be abused, British Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts has forbidden his staff to in voke it in traffic cases. More of the same could perhaps bring about a thaw in Bonn's little cold...