Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is set to appear in federal court Thursday for a status conference on the Trump administration’s charge he trespassed at an immigration detention center in the city last week.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said federal prosecutors him tried to “humiliate and degrade” him by making him give his fingerprints and take a mug shot for a second time after a court appearance on a trespassing charge stemming from his arrest at an immigration detention center.

Baraka called for the charge to be dismissed on Thursday: "It is silly, it's petty, it's unlawful — get rid of it!"