Border cops were beaten, left for dead

BORDER PATROL agents answering a desperate call for help found two colleagues beaten and left for dead in a culvert along a southwest Texas highway, the FBI revealed Monday.

Slain Agent Rogelio Martinez, 36, and his surviving partner were attacked late Saturday while patrolling 12 miles east of the border town of Van Horn, according to federal investigators. The wounded partner’s radio call for help prompted the rescue.

Agents assigned to the Van Horn station found the pair around 11:30 p.m. along Interstate 10. Both agents had severe traumatic head injuries and broken bones, said Agent Jeanette Harper, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s El Paso field office.

Martinez died Sunday at a Van Horn hospital. His partner remains hospitalized in stable condition in El Paso.

The deadly attack prompted a renewed cry from President Trump to build a wall along the Mexican border, despite the scant details of what actually occurred.National Border Patrol Council union boss Art Del Cueto said he believes the agents were attacked with rocks.

Martinez’s grief-stricken father, Jose Martinez, told the El Paso Times his son suffered three instances of cardiac arrest and that his head was “destroyed.”