day for the martinez family, ana. the visitation for rogelio martinez will be held today, the funeral tomorrow at a nearby catholic church and i had a chance to speak with rogelio s mother elvira this week and she said her son was a good man who was proud of the work he was doing. she also told me he would call her every single day. this family is a close family and what makes things especially difficult, ana, they don t have very many answers as to how or why rogelio was actually killed. the governor of texas, greg abbott, said this was a murder. the border patrol union says it was an ambush. the fbi who was investigating this is only calling it a possible assault. what we do know is that agent martinez was patrolling along the interstate searching a culvert area 30 miles from the mexican border as part of his regular duties. what happened after that is still very unclear.
as an attack. there have been reports that the agents might have fallen into a covert or it was an accident of some sort. but three days after the incident investigators insist they don t know what happened. we don t have a picture yet of what transpired. but once we get closer to that, we ll be able to present those facts so we can bring some closure to the family. ed, agent martinez s partner, is he sharing any information with investigators? reporter: it s interesting. the border patrol spokesperson we spoke with said that agent was rather in serious and critical condition because of the head injuries, couldn t remember exactly everything that had transpired. federal investigators aren t confirming any of that. and they say they really haven t had a chance to explore or interview him as of yet, but they will get to that when the
president trump s 2016 hispanic advisory council. he s too a fox contributor and he s a professor professor of economics at the university of chicago. good to have you both here. steve, i want to start with you. you point out something very important in this story and that is the loss of this hispanic officer in what is such a complex issue for americans. i m glad you brought it up because i often bring this point up on air. i think a lot of liberal politicians think that they are pandering to the hispanic community with their misbegotten policies things like open borders and sanctuary cities. when i point out all the time is the victims of those terrible policies, the prey are hispanics themselves. agent martinez is a hero, he died trying to protect our country, whatever the circumstances and it certainly appears it was violence from perpetrators.
patrol agent martinez and his partner were responding to what s been described as activity along interstate 10 just east of the small west texas town of van horn. a short time later martinez s partner called to say both men had been injuried aed and neede medical attention. both men were found with head injuries and broken bones and they were felony to this hospital where agent martinez died and his partner remains in critical condition. federal investigators are saying little about what happened. only to say they re describing as a potential assault on a federal agent. the number of possible scenarios, however, in this instance, we re going to pursue the one that is most challenging as it s presented to us which is a potential assault on a federal officer. as we collect the evidence, then
left one agent dead and many seriously injured. they re asking the public to help and offering $25,000 reward on information on the death. reporter: just before midnight on saturday border patrol agent and his partner were responding to what s been described as activity along interstate 10 just east of the small west texas town of van horn. a short time later martinez s partner called to say both men had been injured. both men were found with injuries. federal investigators are saying little about what happened only to say they re describing it as a potential assault on a federal agent. there are a number of possible scenarios.