A couple of months ago, I wrote in this blog about how the U.S. Embassy in Cambodia had insidiously blocked me from registering my 1-year-old son as an American Citizen.
Their website, mytravelgov.org, would not allow me to enter because I hadn’t linked to an Authenticator app. So I set up the authenticator, which gave instructions as to how link to a website. It said to go into the website and look for the security settings. This turned out to be a perfect Catch-22. I needed to go into the website to set up the authenticator, but I needed to set up the authenticator in order to enter the website.
I was temporarily defeated, but had some other ideas as to how to enter the website and set up a new account. I started to do this on Monday, but when I clicked on Citizen’s Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA), the screen went bright red with a warning from Microsoft that the site was unsafe, so please go back. Similar to the image below:
A US Govt website? Unsafe?
What’s that? A US Government website hacked or otherwise compromised with a warning not to use it? I suspected Elon Musk and DOGE, who somehow compromised hundreds of government websites in order to extract information, especially about foreigners or immigrants.
I was so amazed by this outcome, that I wanted to send a screen shot of that red warning page to a friend. Today, however, the site had been changed — the CRBA option had been completely removed. Vanished.
It appears that it is now completely impossible for American citizens living in Cambodia to register their children as American citizens. What is going on?
Is this all Trump’s doing? Or Elon’s?