You click, you wait, a robot test pops up. Your screen blames ‘automated behaviour’. You did nothing wrong. Or did you?

One moment you are scrolling, the next you face a gate demanding proof of life. Anxiety climbs. The page isn’t budging.

Cleared in a 1980 killing, Subramanyam Vedam was set to walk free. Instead, he was taken into federal custody over a 1999 deportation order.