Ice arrests Pennsylvania man after parole for murder he spent 43 years in prison
It can never be emphasized enough that while the Trump administration has sold its mass immigration as an agenda to save America from the dangers of illegal immigration, we don’t see those perp moments. Instead, we see stories about citizens, including workers, Hyundai card holders, green card holders, journalists, gays, they are simply exiled for their views here, and, in some cases, they promote the views of the President that they don’t like.
And, more often than not, it seems like the cruelty of the place.
An Indian man from Pennsylvania, who recently spent more than four decades in prison for a crime he did not commit, is now held in a decades-old order bound by his false convictions.
Earlier this month, the district attorney in Sikolweni County dismissed the murder charges against Subramanyam “in 1983, he was convicted of the murder of the college three years earlier.
From the Guardian:
Kinser and Vedam had taught them in class and lived briefly as strangers. The day Kinser disappeared, Vedam asked for a ride. Kinser’s car was found parked in its usual spot, although no one saw it being returned. Vedam, who was born in India and arrived in the US nine months ago, was charged with Kinser’s murder and had his passport and green card confiscated. He was also denied bail as he was called a “foreigner likely to flee”.
In 1983, Vedam was convicted of murder and sentenced to prison. A year later, Vedam received an extended sentence of five to five years on a drug charge as part of a term of service to be served concurrently with his life sentence.
While in prison, Vedam maintained his innocence of the accused and continued to plead his conviction on the evidence. In 2021, new evidence in the case of Kinser’s murder was taken, leading to the lifting of Vedam earlier this month. The Centery County District Attorney has also announced that he will not seek a new trial against Vedam, USA Today reported.
It should have been exciting – albeit bittersweet – a moment for vedam to finally be free and after spending most of his life with his platform broken over something he didn’t do. But that moment will be short-lived, because upon his release, Vedam was arrested by immigration officials. According to the Miami Herald, Ice Rep accused Vedam of being ‘a career criminal with a 1980’s rap sheet, “and” a controlled substance trafficker. “
The USA today reported that ice officials point to the expulsion order of 1988 for the conviction of murder and drug crimes, and the legal technicality that the killing of the witness does not cancel the drug crime.
Now, you see, there is a pattern here.
The federal government, under President Donald Trump, who arrests anyone who fits its narrative of dangerous threats, therefore, has transferred criminal records that show that most of them do not call them too light.
In Vedam’s case, any crime he may have been convicted of in his life is at least four decades old and he is no longer involved in its execution. Presenting this man as the “cream” of the “criminal” of the moment to praise him for firing him soon after he was fired and released is just revealing; he does not rest in the heart.
“All we want is to be home and be able to move forward in life,” Zoë Miller’s niece, who lives in California, told USA Today.
Vedam’s lawyer, Ava Benach, told extlet, “Subu lives in the US because he was a nine-month-old child when he and his family arrived as citizens of the United States.
“He was still a legal permanent resident, and his application for citizenship had been accepted, when he was arrested in 1982,” he added.
Yes – None of this has anything to do with keeping America safe. It’s about the xenophobic administration firmly doing the will of the most prominent xenophobic members of the american populace.
Sometimes, you have to know where you are in the story.
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