Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil declared himself a “political prisoner” in an open letter released Tuesday from the Louisiana immigration detention facility where

Khalil said in a declaration filed in Manhattan federal court that while he was held overnight at a detention center in New Jersey, “I did not hear anyone mention bedbugs.”

A detained Columbia University student says the subject of bedbugs never arose after he was arrested and flown to a Louisiana detention center by authorities who now say bedbugs helped force the long