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“No matter your views on immigration, no one should experience grave medical neglect leading to death or disability while in detention,” said Gabri Johnson, daughter of Gabriel Johnson, speaking on behalf of the family. “And when someone suffers from a life-altering medical crisis in government custody, the answer cannot be to block their family from seeing them in the hospital, put them on a plane, and send them out of the country. The United States can be better than that. There is time to be better.”