Arbella “Yari” Rodríguez Márquez, a 39-year-old Phoenix woman with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, has been held at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona since February 2025. Despite having lived in the United States for 25 years and holding lawful permanent resident status for two years, her green card was revoked by a federal immigration judge after her detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
According to Newsweek, Márquez was detained on February 10, 2025, while returning from Mexico through the Nogales border crossing with her partner, Sonia Almaraz, who is a U.S. citizen. According to Almaraz, they were asked to give a ride to someone Márquez believed was a U.S. citizen with proper documentation. However, the individual was using fraudulent identification, leading to both women being separated and detained by Border Patrol agents.
