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November 4, 2025

U.S. Courts Halt Deportation of Man Wrongfully Jailed Under Murder Charges for 43 Years
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In more immigration news, two separate courts have ordered the Trump
administration not to deport a man who spent 43 years in a Pennsylvania
prison for a crime he did not commit. On October 3, 64-year-old
Subramanyam Vedam walked free from Huntingdon State Correctional
Institution, where he'd been held for over four decades, after his
conviction for a 1982 murder was vacated. His freedom came three years
after the Pennsylvania Innocence Project uncovered evidence that
prosecutors had buried an FBI report that would have exonerated him. He
was immediately arrested by ICE agents. Vedam is currently detained at
an ICE jail in Alexandria, Louisiana. Vedam came to the U.S. from India
with his parents when he was just 9 months old.


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