Immigration officials allege that the man, who had two students in the car with him, has criminal convictions and was twice previously removed from the country.

Across the country, school districts in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Denver have reported large swaths of students staying home from school out of fear of being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers inside their classrooms ever since the Trump administration opened up schools as locations to make arrests.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement defended arresting the man who had just dropped off a child at Jovita Idár Elementary.