
called “deferred action.” These programs were expected to help up to 4.4 million people, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Under a directive from the secretary of DHS, these parents and youth could be granted a type of temporary permission to stay in the U.S.

Curiel was born in Indiana and educated there.Ī local legal observer has opined that we don't hear Trump complain that the opponents of President Barack Obama's executive orders to implement the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA). The Republican and Democratic leadership has repudiated Trump's criticism and allegations that federal district judge Gonzalo Curiel is biased against him just because his parents were from Mexico and became naturalized citizens. To say that they made decisions based on their ethnicity or cultural descent instead of on the law, is ludicrous. Having covered cases in federal courts in Brownsville while Fil's dad, Filemon Vela Sr., and Judge Reynaldo Garza, presided on the bench, I can personally state that both bent over backwards to be fair and follow the letter, if not the spirit, of the law. And that would include his father the late federal judge. After all, Trump indirectly is saying that federal judges of Mexican descent cannot be fair and impartial to anyone charged with fraud who happens to advocate a wall between the U.S.

about Trump's "shameful" perception of Hispanics in the United States, a Border Wall, and the questioning of a federal judge's integrity and impartiality.

and Mexico, it opens up some interesting questions.įoremost, of course, are those raised by U.S. With Donald Trump whining that a judge of Mexican-American heritage is naturally biased against him because he want to build a wall between the U.S.
