More than 1,200 students nationwide suddenly lost their legal status or had visas revoked, leaving them at risk for deportation.

ICE began restoring thousands of student visa registrations, allowing students at institutions like Georgia Tech to breathe a little easier.

The U.S. State Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday reversed a policy that in the past month led to the termination of student visas and raised fears of incarceration and deportation.

You guys just make it sound like I say, ‘Just kick down the door and grab the two-year-old’ and threw them on an airplane. That’s misleading,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on NBC on Sunday morning.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the deportation of three children who are U.S. citizens, claiming the mothers could have made their kids stay behind. “Those children are U.S. citizens,” Rubio said on Sunday’s episode of “Meet The Press.

Trump administration officials on Sunday defended the administration's aggressive crackdown on undocumented immigrants after immigration advocacy groups reported U.S. citizen children had been deported.