Driver charged in fatal car crash with Cortez Masto aide identified as illegal immigrant

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The driver charged in connection with a fatal car crash that killed a Senate staffer in Nevada has been identified as an illegal immigrant who came across the southern border during President Joe Biden‘s first year in office, the Washington Examiner has learned.

Police in Reno charged Elmer Rueda-Linares, 18, for running off from the site where he crashed into another vehicle, resulting in the death of Kurt Englehart, the state senior adviser to Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV).

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