US courts stay deportation of Indian-origin man wrongly jailed for 43 years

Subramanyam Vedam, a 64-year-old Indian-born legal permanent US resident, was wrongfully imprisoned for over 40 years for a murder he did not commit before being exonerated in October. Despite his exoneration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately detained him upon release, citing a 1988 deportation order based on a separate drug conviction from 1984. Two courts have now temporarily halted his deportation while appeals are pending, though ICE maintains the drug conviction justifies removal even though the murder charge was overturned.