Posted on 06/03/2016 5:41:15 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
The federal judge being attacked by Donald Trump because of his Mexican heritage once faced something much more dangerous than the presumptive Republican nominee's verbal barbs.
In the 1990s, Gonzalo Curiel was targeted for assassination when he was a federal prosecutor working to lock up some of the worst of the worst Mexican drug cartel members.
ABC News Nightline's Deborah Amos interviewed Curiel in 2002 when he was an assistant U.S. attorney. Curiel had been trying to keep illicit drugs from coming over the U.S. border with Mexico along the Tijuana corridor by doing battle with the infamous Arellano-Felix cartel. He described the takedown of top cartel leaders as a "huge deal."
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I'd like confirmation before I believe that.
Well, we know how he got them lifted...
It’s hard to pick a dog in that fight.
Baseless slander is cheap.
What slander?
Does the name include the words La Raza Jeanette?
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