Which is apparently what he took, right?

You don't really need ID to fly domestically, but you are expected to have ID to fly and can be denied boarding -- at least by the airline -- if you don't have it. And given the "foreign accent = terrorist" suspicion and the desire of so many dreamers to have the "big catch", people who don't present ID and fall within that category should have increased expectation of quite the hassle in the absence of a police report, perhaps from a police officer who is a "big catch" dreamer too.