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Oct 14, 2006 | 4:37 pm

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Originally Posted by david4455

I have an actress friend who just landed a nice part on a TV sitcom and needs to fly to LA for a month or two for filming. They presently live in NY.

She has a part time nanny who would like to go with them and help out but does not have US citizen papers. In fact whatever papers she did have, may, we are not sure, be expired. She is from the Carribbean and does have a St. Lucia passport as well as a NY State non-driving picture ID.

Can she fly domestically from NY to LA with her NY picture ID without a fear of being arrested as an illegal at the airport?

She should be fine since immigration dragnets are still not an ordinary part of most all domestic US flights.

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