Originally Posted by
mybodyismyown
He should shut up about his predicament, book a ticket in a different name, check in online, and then Photoshop the boarding pass to match his real ID. It's trivial for him to evade this.
Ehrm... well... one of the first people he's going to talk to when he gets back home is a federal law enforcement officer (CBP) who probably has ways of determining his true identity and the fact that he's on a no-fly list.
I'm guessing that entering the country under these circumstances would cause even more problems for him.