Donald Trump and Gonzalo Curiel

Melissa Mark-Viverito: New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, with City Councilman Carlos Menchaca, speaks at a news conference outside Trump Tower in New York, Monday, June 6, 2016, according to Toronto Star. She was speaking out against comments made by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump regarding Judge Gonzalo Curiel. Curiel, whose handling of a lawsuit filed by former students of Donald Trump has drawn him into a political spotlight, once had to live in hiding after being threatened with assassination for his work prosecuting Mexican drug cartel members. Trump said the U.S. District Court Judge can't be impartial in the lawsuits regarding Trump University because his parents were born in Mexico and Trump wants to build a wall along the border. It a building that Curiel is familiar with, from his 13-year-long tenure as a narcotics prosecutor with the U.S. attorney office in San Diego, eventually rising to chief of the unit. By Star Wire Services Mon., June 6, 2016 Since the fall of 2012, U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel has quietly presided over hundreds of cases from a spacious wood-panelled courtroom on the second floor of the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego, drawing little attention outside the tight-knit federal legal community. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.