but if you were here illegally you can fly on an airplane with no id whatsoever
Some detail might be helpful. Generally a body can waltz into a Goodwill and pay cash and nobody cares. Merchants might be taking more precautions with credit cards. Maybe their banks even require such a procedure in order to be covered if the card is later found fraudulent.
Many months ago the TSA added a shoes-ok rule for seniors. How old is the author? I underwent the hand-swab drill when flying a pet cat a couple years ago out of O’Hare on a commercial passenger flight. I carried the cat through an old fashioned metal detector. Then they swabbed for explosives. Then the cat went back in its carrier which had gone through X-ray.
Liberals today have so many cases of the vapors. I wonder if those are explosive vapors. If Islamoterrorists weren’t generally so ostentatious about it, we’d be in a far bigger pickle than we are.
I”ve been swabbed a few times and always passed. But you don’t want to fertilize your lawn right before you head to the airport (or handle your luggage, for that matter).
In the 43 years I’ve been voting in bright blue Connecticut, I’ve had to show a drivers licence or some other government issued ID each time.
I can’t wait until I fly to Tijuana and sneak back across the border so I can finally live in the shadows. I’ve been an idiot tax paying chump for too long.