Arbella “Yari” Rodriguez Marquez has spent more than a year in ICE detention.
Throughout her time at the Eloy Detention Center, her partner, state legislators and members of Congress have called for her release, citing Marquez’s medical condition — chronic leukemia.
Last week, three dozen members of the state Legislature's LGBTQIA caucus penned a letter to ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility, calling for Marquez to be released expeditiously on humanitarian grounds.
Marquez currently faces a host of medical complications at Eloy, including weight loss, anemia and vomiting blood, the legislators said.
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