The Trump administration is backing down in a multi-state legal fight over sweeping actions taken by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month that jeopardized and potentially terminated the immigration status of thousands of international students studying in the United States.

ICE is reinstating the status of some international students whose records they terminated on a Department of Homeland Security database, court records suggest.

Over 100 lawsuits were filed against the government after it abruptly revoked hundreds of visas from international students studying in the U.S.