Is it possible to travel on planes

with a matricula consular from Mexico? i'm planning to apply to many private medical schools across the nation and if i get an interview i fear i wont be able to get there. I've heard of undocumented people traveling with the matricula consular. Is this true? How big of a risk is it to travel? Anyone ever done it before?

A lot of people here travel with unexpired passports. Most of the time it's fine but traveling always involves risk and a few people have been picked up at the airport by ICE. Although the majority have not. People have also been picked up an greyhound bus stations and they just stared checking over at Amtrak. But you have to do, what you have to do.

well..I am sure you can make it out of the country...but you wont be able to come back..

^ he wasn't talking about leaving the country... just traveling inside the U.S.

I would be really cautious about traveling on planes since TSA personnel is replacing a lot of the airport security and even if you have an unexpired passport they can leaf through it and find no visa which can lead to an investigation about your status. Using a matricula is, in my opinion, really risky since they assume that all Hispanics are illegal.

The safest way to travel is to
1)Have someone with a valid drivers license drive you
2)Avoid border areas

Even then if you get stopped at a BP checkpoint, like Rahman said, all it takes is an over ambitious BP agent.
Stay away from Oklahoma, State patrol checks passenger's status and charges the driver with a felony. Yeah, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Actually avoiding Oklahoma isn't necessary. The scenario described as to checking passangers status and charging the driver with a felony is not really happening. While the state immigration law allows prosecution of those transporting illegal aliens, it was designed more in mind for immigrant smuglers. Regardless, in all the months since the law was past, not one person has been arrested for violation of the law. Seems that everyone is scared of the obvious lawsuit waiting to happen.

Argh! And I'm just planning to go visit some friends in Tennessee late this year. I wonder what the Amtrak route to get there would be. I hope straight accross and not towards the South for some reason. Anyone?

Oh and just an FYI to the same effect... in Tennessee you can get ticketed for the same thing (as misdemeanor and a maximum fine of $1,000).

Actually someone already has.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/artic..._1__AUSci58616
This woman was arrested for giving her undocumented boyfriend a ride.

Actually, according to that article:

"A U.S. citizen was arrested under the state's controversial new anti-illegal immigrant law overnight in Tulsa County, an opponent of the law said Thursday."

and:

"Edwards said he wasn't aware of anyone being arrested in Tulsa County for breaking HB 1804 as described by Rivera."

Unfortunately I can't find a direct article, but it turned out that the arrest described in this article proved to be a rumor and no actual arrests have been made.