Issues concerning child custody are always intense and even more so during the holidays as families and children inevitably struggle with who are the children going to be with on which day. When an immigration component is present, it sometimes is used as a threat by one parent against the other. I have seen threats made in cases where both parents are in the United States as well as in situations when one parent is in the United States and the other is outside. In both situations, an undocumented parent should not be afraid of losing custody only due to immigration status.
