City Comptroller Brad Lander on Tuesday chose to proceed to trial — and risk a possible jail stint — following his arrest for trying to inspect conditions under which the Trump administration is detaining migrants at 26 Federal Plaza.

Following several hours of mediation talks at Manhattan federal court Tuesday, prosecutors agreed not to pursue cases against elected officials arrested alongside Lander in September, provided they are not arrested on federal property over the next six months.

The comptroller declined the offer, choosing to fight the case at a trial.

The pols were arrested on low-level charges on Sept. 18 after attempting to view the 10th floor at the lower Manhattan facility, where migrants have reported being treated like “dogs” in squalid and cramped conditions.

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