UMD students demand university, state leaders support release of Maria Flores Garcia

University of Maryland students and community members are demanding that ICE release fellow student Maria Flores Garcia and her mother from custody and are urging university administrators to publicly support their release. Flores Garcia, a freshman public health major, and her mother are currently in a detention center in Louisiana after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained them in Baltimore last week, The Diamondback reported Tuesday. The two were completing a routine check-in at a Baltimore immigration office. This university’s Coalition of Latinx Students Organizations hosted a town hall Wednesday evening to stand in solidarity with Flores Garcia and her mother. At the town hall, students sent emails to university President Darryll Pines, Student Affairs Vice President Patty Perillo and the Belonging & Community office, calling on them to acknowledge the harm ICE detainments and deportations have caused to the Latino community. They also made phone calls to Sen.

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