After a border patrol officer died while working along the United States-Mexico border on Sunday, President Donald Trump responded with a tweet promoting his push for a wall along the southern border.
Border Patrol Officer killed at Southern Border, another badly hurt. We will seek out and bring to justice those responsible. We will, and must, build the Wall!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2017
Two agents were injured while responding to unspecified activity along the southern border, and one later died in the hospital on Sunday morning, according to CNN. Following the agent’s death, acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke offered her thoughts and prayers to the agent’s family.
“On behalf of the quarter of a million front line officers and agents of DHS, my thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Agent Martinez and to the agent who is in serious condition,” she said in a statement.
I’m betting this was not immigrant related, and a wall would not have had any impact.
Interesting that Two Scoops didn’t mention the agent’s name in his tweet. I guess the WH staff didn’t have time to prepare a chart for him.
One more death used by this sick man as a crude political weapon for a nonsensical policy with no purpose other than to please his idiot base. Too busy rushing for his phone to remember the name, which in a strange coincidence is Hispanic. SMH
Maybe the agent is Hispanic.
Quick google search, yep his name was Rogelio Martinez,
Was he killed with a gun? If so we should seize this one opportunity where it is apparently OK to immediately politicize someone’s death and get some much-needed gun control legislation passed!