Hillary Clinton's camp bashed Donald Trump for saying a judge presents a "conflict of interest" because of his Mexican heritage. | AP Photo Clinton camp rips 'unfit' Trump on judge attack

Hillary Clinton's campaign laced into Donald Trump anew on Friday, this time for his latest escalation that the federal judge overseeing class-action lawsuits against Trump University presents a "conflict of interest" because of his Mexican heritage.

“Judge Curiel and his family epitomize the American Dream," Lorella Praeli, the campaign's director of Latino outreach said in a statement. "His parents worked hard to give their U.S.-born children a better life. He and his brother became successful lawyers. His other brother served in Vietnam."


Curiel was born to Mexican immigrants in East Chicago, Indiana, a fact that Trump told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday is an "absolute" and "inherent conflict of interest" because "I'm building a wall."

Praeli continued, "The fact that Donald Trump doesn't see Judge Curiel and his family as Americans makes him unfit to be president of this great nation, a nation of immigrants. In Trump's version of America, this Latino family isn't really American. But they are America. And Hillary Clinton will fight for ALL Americans.”