Originally Posted by ND Sol

I should have seen this one before from the TSA link referenced above:

The passenger says he has no visa or passport. So he is sent off to secondary as part of the SOP.

Then during the bag search, the TSO not only looks at the Social Security card, Permanent Residence Card and California ID, but then examines them with the black light and magnifying loupe. That is beyond the bounds of airport administrative search as those items are not prohibited items and reading them is not part of a proper administrative search, much less examining them in great detail.

Unlike at the document checking station, these items were not being presented as valid ID to permit the avoidance of a secondary. How far down the slippery slope have we gone?