Mexican-American judge rules in Trump's favour on border wall

Mexican-American Judge Gonzalo Curiel, whom President Donald Trump once attacked for his Mexican heritage has ruled in favour of the administration in a lawsuit attempting to block the President's proposed wall on the US-Mexico border.

Curiel, whose parents immigrated from Mexico, ruled on Tuesday against a legal challenge to the wall over environment waivers granted by the Department of Homeland Security, the Hill magazine



reported.

The ruling meant that the administration will be able to continue waiving the regulations to build barriers on the border.

Trump had harshly attacked the Indiana-born Curiel during the 2016 presidential campaign, claiming that because of his Mexican heritage the judge could be biased against the mogul in the fraud case he presided over involving so-called Trump University, a legal matter that ultimately was settled out of court for $25 million.