US Incarcerates Man for 43 Years, Then Tries to Deport Him
Subramanyam Vedam, cleared of murder after new ballistics evidence proved his innocence—evidence prosecutors allegedly withheld for decades—now stares down immigration officials. After 43 years of being a state expense, and despite being a child of Penn State faculty, his status as an 'undesirable' immigrant rears its head. Once the state decides you're a problem, guilt or innocence is secondary
to extraction, regardless of having served a lifetime in their crumbling facilities. America's vaunted justice system, which just delivered 'justice' by freeing a man it wrongfully imprisoned, now insists on severing his ties to the very country that stole his life. It’s a perfect bureaucratic ouroboros: destroy a life, then banish the evidence. One might wonder, how exactly does 43 years in a
cell not count as paying one's dues—or rather, paying for the state's mistakes?