In his first public statement since being detained by U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement and sent to Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil described himself as a "political prisoner."

An Upper West Side woman is being bombarded with nasty emails and suspicious packages — all because she has the same name as the lawyer for Palestinian agitator Mahmoud Khalil, law-enforcement sources said Monday.

"For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace," the activist said after federal agents arrested him for protesting at Columbia University.

Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University Palestinian graduate student who the Trump administration is seeking to deport for his role in pro-Palestinian protests, called himself a political prisoner on Tuesday,

Mahmoud Khalil is not the first political prisoner in America. Under Trump's bias and policies, he will not be the last.