India, Nov. 12 -- A University of Maryland student who was the valedictorian at her high school in Prince George's County, who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents alongside her mother last week, has spoken out from an immigration detention facility in Louisiana. Maria Flores Garcia, a former valedictorian at Parkdale High School, was taken into custody during a routine immigration check-in with her mother at an ICE office in Baltimore.

Maria is originally from El Salvador, and came to the US when she was nine years old.

"I'm here with my mom, so that's nice," she told WUSA9, "But you look at your surroundings and you're like, 'Oh my God, nobody deserves to be here. Especially me.'"

Maria earlier receiv...