Originally Posted by
SATTSO
There will ALWAYS be people who violate rules in ANY organization that exist. I suspect that even where you work/worked there were employees who did whatever they wanted. However, as millions of children fly each year, what you talk about is a rare exception to the rule; it actually works fairly well.
But if you wonder if a TSO will argue with a parent that they belive the child is older than 12, the answer is "yes". There is NO system that could be perfect.
Who is talking about a TSA violation of rules?
What TSA rule in Texas was violated by the TSA demanding ID of an unaccompanied 16-year-old boy, with US and Pakistani citizenship, traveling from one Texas airport to another airport in the US where the young passenger shows his Pakistani passport and thereby gets subjected to additional screening of the (TSA-wanted-and-approved) bigoted sort that subjected him to such due to presented national affiliation?