Originally Posted by
Checkmite
Evidently you failed to completely read the article, because it's fairly apparent that the (one) Dreamer making the statement is not "threatening" anything, but simply acknowledging the fact that they will have to leave one way or another, and that they would prefer to do it voluntarily rather than live in fear until the day the Gestapo arrest them for not having papers whereupon they'll have to spend an indefinite and miserable amount of time imprisoned before being deported to some place not of their choosing and almost certainly without any assets.
Well, also, if you leave on your own, you and your family can apply to come back as legal residents. If deported, most likely not.
A very convoluted legal knot. I knew an undocumented alien (from Mexico) who voluntarily contacted the INS, left voluntarily, and was allowed to come back 6 months later. I'm not exactly sure why these hoops were necessary; I can only assume that decades of immigration law produces such results.