november, 2015, attacking a crowd us. crowded paris concert hall. 2016, july, and extremist crash a truck killing nearly 90 people. then, this today. you can imagine why the french people are very much on edge. three days from now, they will go to the polls and vote in the first round of the presidential election. it is hotly contested. at least one candidate is calling for a postponement due to the events of this evening. we will keep you posted from new developments from france tonight. breaking news at home, you just heard attorney general jeff sessions and the dhs secretary john kelly address this story, which is very big this week. the deportation of this 23-year-old, juan manuel montes. tonight, there is no details in this case, including that the judge presiding over this case, check this out, will be none other than the judge who was the subject of a lot of controversy for now president trump during
here s abc s se vil ya vega tonight. reporter: he is the indiana-born judge whom president trump called biased because of his mexican heritage, and tonight, gonzalo curiel is back in the spotlight presiding over a suit filed by what could be the first dreamer deported by the trump administration. during the campaign, then-candidate trump repeatedly attacked judge curiel s impartiality, calling him unfit to oversee a case about trump university. i have a judge who is a hater of donald trump, a hater. i believe he happens to be spanish, which is fine, he s hispanic, which is fine. we re building a wall, he s a mexican. reporter: it is a complete coincidence that curiel has been assigned the case of juan manuel montes, a 23-year-old who illegally came to the u.s. when he was just 9. a so-called dreamer, who under president obama, received protected status from deportation. but tonight, he is back in mexico, deported. montes says it happened in february. he was near the border in
legitimate docket status but by going to mexico, he lost his protection. when our agents on the frontline encounter people, they are going to enforce the laws on the books. critics jumped on the montes story for what they consider trumps inhumane policy. calling it disturbing, alarming, senate minority leader nancy pelosi. montes lawyers hope to prove he did not leave the u.s. voluntarily. i bet there is plenty of surveillance video we going to see if he crossed or did not cross. stick with the judge hearinge lawsuit also handled the trump university case. at the time, they claim to indiana-born curiel couldn t be fair. as for montes, now living in mexico waiting to out outcome of his case as of 750 70,750,000 r docket recipients. bret: president trump talks paris terror, iran news, and
consistently, we can do what we have done before. we stop the colombian cartels. we actually damaged ms-13 a number of years ago. it has come back. we can damage it again. our goal is to destroy those, to dismantle it. that is what president trump gave us an executive order, to dismantle these international criminal organizations. we are going to do that. we are going to prosecute them. we are going to investigate them. we are going to deport them after that. that is the right thing to do. i believe we ll be successful. it is going to be a top priority of this government. you can be sure of it. martha: attorney general, another quick question for you. the judge he was overseeing the case we talked about a moment ago go with mr. montes as someone that had a bed of a run-in with president trump because he was overseeing trump university case during the course of the election. do you think this judge can be fair in this case? i suspect all the lawyers who know what more about it than
regarding mexico. if his name sounds familiar, it s the same judge that trump attacked for his handling of the trump university case. mr. trump claimed he could not be impartial because of his mexican heritage. mind you, he s from indiana. the lawsuit was settled. now, curiel, who was chosen randomly will preside over the case of juan manuel montes, despite claiming he was protected under daca. montes tried to sneak back into the u.s. on february 19th and he was caught by border patrol agents. his lawyers claim he was improperly deported one day earlier, but homeland security officials dispute that, insisting montes left the country without pre-authorization, therefore voiding his status. u.s. authorities are seeking the arrest of julian assange.