ALLENTOWN, PA. — Junior Clase’s cluttered kitchen table paints a picture of his life in the United States. Scattered across it are bottles of deodorant and conditioner that he sends back to the Dominican Republic, a Spanish-language Bible and a plastic medical brace for his wife, Solibel Olaverria.

Olaverria began having intense headaches and vomiting five months after she joined her husband in the U.S. In the emergency room, she was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm; during surgery to stop it from rupturing, she suffered a stroke and was induced into a coma.

She left the couple’s Allentown row house in December 2022 and has yet to return. Clase worries she never will.

In February 2023, Clase said, hospital administrators suggested transporting his still-comatose wife to a facility back i

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