US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained 19-year-old University of Maryland student Maria Flores Garcia and her 48-year-old mother Mirna during an immigration check-in in Baltimore, Maryland.
The undergraduate public health scholar, who graduated as the class valedictorian of Parkdale High School in Prince George's County earlier this year, was taken into custody on 5 November 2026 after accompanying her mother to a routine federal immigration review.
