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.
This is not an isolated case, because like this marriage, in which one spouse is undocumented and the other is a U.S. citizen, there are 1.4 million mixed-nationality couples who live in fear of being separated. Separation, however, has become a lesser evil in many cases, given the treatment received by those who end up in ICE custody. Many couples prefer to continue their relationship long-distance rather than enter the uncertain process of detention and deportation.
A Toyota Sienna minivan was traveling southbound on Pope Valley Road in unincorporated Napa County, 12 miles north of St. Helena, when it crashed into a tree on the side of the road. The minivan had eight men in it, including the driver, 53-year-old Norberto Celerino of Stockton. Six of the passengers were killed and one was critically injured. Celerino, who did not have a valid driver's license, survived, and we learned a few days later that he had three previous DUI convictions.
Israel's Foreign Ministry announced on X on Monday that it had expelled a total of 171 activists from the flotilla's ships, which were intercepted last week while trying to bring aid to blockaded Gaza. This brings the total deported so far up to 341. The Greek Foreign Ministry confirmed that 161 of the expelled activists including 27 Greeks and 134 nationals from 15 other countries arrived on a flight to Athens on Monday, according to news agency AFP.
The initial 14 were brought to Ghana on September 6. Three were deported that night. 11 were held in military detention. Out of that 11, 10 were deported with the matter in court, and eight of them are in Togo,
We are very frightened of what will happen to us, said one. We were told we can claim asylum in France but nobody has explained to us what we need to do. I escaped from the smugglers in Calais when I travelled to UK and I am scared they will find me here and kill me.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) The Trump administration deported a planeload of around 100 Iranians back to Tehran late Monday under a deal struck with the Iranian government, officials have confirmed. A U.S.-chartered flight left Louisiana and was scheduled to land in Iran on Tuesday via Qatar, two senior Iranian officials involved in the negotiations and a U.S. official familiar with the plan told The New York Times. All spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old Hercules resident who worked in Berkeley for 20 years, has been deported to India after a 15-day detention during which, she said, she experienced harrowing conditions. Courtesy of her family Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old East Bay woman who was detained for 15 days by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a routine check-in was deported to her home country of India this week.
The DHS posted a montage of ICE raids to X on Monday accompanied by the Pokémon theme song and the caption "Gotta Catch 'Em All." The clip also features images from the cartoon and text overlays using a sort of Temu version of the Pokémon font. A day later, the agency posted a video featuring a viral clip of Theo Von where he stares into the camera and says " heard you got deported, dude... bye,"
Yooo DHS i didnt approve to be used in this. I know you know my address so send a check. And please take this down and please keep me out of your 'banger' deportation videos. When it comes to immigration my thoughts and heart are alot more nuanced than this video allows. Bye! https://t.co/5v5gagf4Dr - Theo Von (@TheoVon) September 24, 2025
Carlos, the main subject, is one such case: originally from Mexico, he crossed the border at the age of nine with his three brothers and his parents. Now in his late 30s, Carlos has spent all of his adult life in America, yet there is no legal pathway for him to citizenship. A tragedy looms large. Jorge, one of Carlos's siblings, was deported to Mexico after a minor driving offence, leaving behind his partner and his son.
Donald Trump triumphantly returned to the Oval Office on January 20, 2025, with the mission of inaugurating a new golden age for the United States. And transforming immigration was always a central component of that grand vision that began with an avalanche of executive orders signed on his first day in office. The promise was to carry out the largest deportation in history and expel all undocumented immigrants from the country.
The United States has ended the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Syria, warning Syrian migrants they now face arrest and deportation if they do not leave the country within 60 days. The action on Friday came as part of US President Donald Trump's broad effort to strip legal status from migrants. It will terminate TPS for more than 6,000 Syrians who have had access to the legal status since 2012, according to a Federal Register notice posted Friday.
Marc Lamont Hill speaks with Mahmoud Khalil about detention, dissent and the fight for Palestinian rights. After fleeing Syria's civil war, Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was detained in the United States for more than 100 days after protesting against Israel's genocide in Gaza. He says his arrest was meant to silence dissent and intimidate others from speaking out.
It will come as a relief to the government amid pressure to tackle the small boats crisis, with Donald Trump on Thursday suggesting Keir Starmer should use the military to stop illegal migration. The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said the first return showed people crossing the Channel that if you enter the UK illegally, we will seek to remove you. She said she would continue to challenge any last-minute, vexatious attempts to frustrate a removal in the courts.