Students, community members rally across Maryland in support of Maria Flores Garcia

Students and community members spent Friday protesting against the detainment of University of Maryland student Maria Flores Garcia and her mother, advocating at a university system meeting and rallying both on campus and at the ICE office in Hyattsville. Flores Garcia, a freshman public health major, and her mother Mirna Aracely Garcia Cabrera are currently in a Louisiana detention center after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained them in Baltimore last week. The two were completing a routine check-in at a Baltimore immigration office when ICE took them into custody, The Diamondback reported Tuesday. In a Wednesday statement, immigration law firm and Flores Garcia’s legal representative Murray Osorio wrote that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has plans to move her and her mother without a judge’s order to Mexico, where neither has legal status.

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