Please understand that both options come with risk.

ICE agents are known to wander through the gates randomly checking peoples documents. I've flown maybe 50+ times and I've yet to see this happen, but it does and it's something you should know.

Driving comes with a risk, because DACA recipients have gotten pulled over, albeit mostly near border towns, and were accused of smuggling immigrants.

Please take this into consideration and only you and your parents can decide if the risk is worth it.


To answer your final question about airlines. If you're asking whether any airline proactively looks to turn over questionable people without status, that should not concern you. Once you get past security, you won't be asked to show your ID/Passport at the gate, nor will you be asked to show them when you transfer planes in Dallas.

If you're asking advice on which airline has the best overall customer service, I say go with Delta. Southwest is good also, but they don't have as many flights from the East Coast as they do from the West Coast.

Good luck.