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Border Patrol: Two human smugglers arrested for fatal accident involving Migrants deaths in Texas

Two men have been arrested in connection with the deaths of two migrants who were in a packed SUV that plunged into a flooded canal on Friday in the Rio Grande Valley. Jose Alexis Baeze-Combaluzier, a Mexican national, told Border Patrol he was driving the black Ford Explorer the led agents on a chase through flooded roads before crashing into a canal on Friday morning near border town of Elsa, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Baeze-Combaluzier, 26, is charged with transporting people in the country illegally with a vehicle resulting in death, according to a redacted version of the complaint obtained Tuesday by Border Report. Another man, Vicente Garcia Jr., 18, of Roma, Texas, has also been arrested and is charged with alien smuggling resulting in two deaths, U.S. Attorney Nicholas Ganjei said Tuesday. Both men have federal court hearings before U.S. Magistrate J. Scott Hacker on Wednesday in McAllen. Baeze-Combaluzier was among five people rescued by Border Patrol agents from the swollen canal on Friday morning after historic flooding struck the Rio Grande Valley border region starting Thursday. A 14-year-old boy from Guatemala and an adult woman identified as Elena Catarina Morales-Chan died in the crash, according to the complaint. The Texas Department of Public Safety posted on social media video of the rescues that show an emergency worker riding the skids of a helicopter operated by the agency’s Aircraft Operations Division (AOD) as it dips near the canal. He then loops safety devices on two stranded men hoists them into the air. “AOD working Operation Lone Star in Hidalgo Co. rescued a human smuggler — an illegal immigrant from Mexico — who crashed into a flooded canal while attempting to smuggle several other illegal immigrants to a stash house in the Rio Grande Valley. Four other illegal immigrants were also rescued from the water, along with two deceased individuals. DPS’ State Dive Team also assisted with recovering the suspect’s vehicle from the canal,” Texas DPS posted on X. A Border Patrol spokeswoman told Border Report that agents with the BORSTAR unit — Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue unit — also assisted in the rescues. Information from Border Report. Interview video by Victor Castillo