Originally Posted by
gj83
Gosh, I thought TSA's job is mission creep from CBP.
I've seen them ask a lady who presented a US passport to show her "other" passport which was one from a Latin American country. I thought for the purpose of TSA ID=ID and visas shouldn't matter.
Yesterday I saw the lady in ROC thoroughly examining the Mexican passports for 2 business men in front of me. It took about a minute and thirty seconds each to determine something. Maybe they didn't look "Mexican" enough to her b/c they were white
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They do that with many passports. (I'm not defending them - they are still cnuts). When I present a foreign passport, they seem to take for ever looking at it. Soimetimes the interaction goes badly but that's another thread! OTOH, when I present a US passport, the same thing happens about 25% of the time, so perhaps there is an element of psychological testing involved in the ID check process. The TSO kneeling behind the Yucca Plant is SPOTing while the ID checker pretends like there is a problem?