Subramanyam Vedam, 64, was recently exonerated for murder after being sentenced to life in prison in 1983
A Pennsylvania man who was recently exonerated after spending more than four decades behind bars has now been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and faces possible deportation to India.
Earlier this month, Centre county’s district attorney dismissed murder charges against 64-year-old Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam. However, shortly after his exoneration, Vedam was detained by ICE based on a 1988 deportation order tied to his now-vacated convictions.
He has a drug conviction from way back that he was not exonerated of, unlike the murder. The drug charge by itself is a legal ground for deportation.
What is legal and what is moral aren’t always the same. Exporting him is absolutely immoral.
43 years of his life lost due to a wrongful conviction and instead of trying assist him after he’s suffered tragically due to the state’s failure, the state is making him disappear. Those 43 years vastly overpaid any “debt” he had to society for his drug conviction. Have compassion for an old man that’s suffered such unrecoverable loss.
Then the law is wrong. This application of it DEFINITELY is.
Ok hippie, not everybody thinks it s fine to live with drugs
Alright well not everybody thinks it’s not fine to live with drugs. So there.
Do you believe it’s fine for you to decide who gets to “live with drugs”? If the state says it’s okay to “live with drugs”, do you believe that you should be able to supersede the mandate of the state?
We should string up the billionaire families that created and profited from the opiate epidemic, we agree on this.
How about the legal drugs pushed by our cooperate overlords Johnson and Johnson that caused the opiod epidemic. Not everyone thinks whatever ever religion you belong to is theirs.
What do you have to say about JFK Jr then?
“Live with drugs”? Wtf are you even talking about?
Do you have any idea how many prescription drugs the average law-abiding American is on? Or how much worse for both the individual and society at large some common ones are than illegal ones?
You’re clearly speaking from prejudice and gaslighting rather than knowledge and wisdom.
I’m happy you nor anyone you know and love has ever struggled with addiction. Must be nice