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The bullet fired by a federal immigration officer is still lodged to his back, according to Garces Perez and his immigration lawyer, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch. I would hope so.” Brian Elmore, a doctor who has treated injured immigrants in Mexico and is a current Global Emergency Medical fellow at the University of Virginia, said he recently discharged a Maryland man who also had a bullet lodged in his back. About four hours after Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was admitted to an Austin hospital with a gunshot wound, the Venezuelan man was discharged Sunday and taken 135 miles south to an immigration detention center where some detainees have complained about inadequate medical care. His lawyers, Democratic leaders and immigrant advocates have questioned whether Garces Perez received proper medical treatment and whether he was taken into custody before he could fully heal.
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