Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said parents in Washington should not expect to see ICE officers visiting schools when kids return on Monday.

But he did not rule out the possibility of ICE needing to come on school campuses in the future in special circumstances. Lyons said ICE officers may need to make welfare checks on students in the district or anywhere in the U.S. if they were identified as an unaccompanied child when they crossed the southern border.

"We want to use our special agents and our officers to go ahead and locate these individuals," he said. "If we have the opportunity to reunite that parent with that child, that’s what we want to do."