Originally Posted by
JumboD
I'm wondering the same, since TSA is a federal agency. Now, if each State were to be in charge of its own airports' security, then you might have a claim. Section 1 of the 14th Amendment defines U.S. citizenship and also stipulates that no State may deny the right to life, liberty or property w/o due process to anyone under its jurisdiction, citizen or non. Based on this text alone, the federal government would appear exempt from that particular clause.
I cannot find anywhere that states whether any of the rights outlined in Amendments 1-10 (or beyond) apply differently to citizens vs. non, though I'll admit, I'm no constitutional scholar.
The rights secured in the Bill of Rights are limitations on government power to act, not an enumeration of rights bestowed by the government. Accordingly, it makes no difference whether the government is acting against a citizen or a non-citizen with respect to trespass on those rights -- it is an unauthorized power and therefore unconstitutional.
The 14th Amendment recognizes the same principle with respect to state government. The entire Bill of Rights, with the exception of a small portion of the 8th and, arguably the 2nd, has been extended to constrain state (and municipal) government through a process called selective incorporation through the 14th Amendment.