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Texas ‘Dreamer’ killed volunteering during Harvey floods.

A hero “Dreamer” was found dead by his heartbroken family Sunday after his boat capsized in the storm-swollen bayou waters of Houston.

Mexico-born Alonso Guillen, 31, braved the surging Harvey floods Wednesday during a midnight rescue mission with two friends.

Their vessel hit a bridge and sank in Cypress Creek, according to the Houston Chronicle.

A second person, 25-year-old Tomas Carreon Jr., was also killed and found floating in the river, officials said.

Guillen’s father, Jesus Guillen, kept watch from shore with other family members until his son’s body was spotted floating downstream Sunday.

Another relative jumped into the water to grab him, the paper reported.

“Thank you, God, for the time I had with him,” the grieving father cried.

Missing from the sandy shore was Guillen's mother.

Ruiz de Guillen is stuck in the border town of Piedras Negras in Mexico while trying to obtain legal status to join her family in the U.S., according to the Chronicle.

She hoped for a humanitarian visa to cross the border and be with her family Sunday, but members of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection turned her away.

“When are with God, there are no borders. Man made borders on this earth,” she said.

Customs and Border Patrol said Monday afternoon, however, that Guillen's mother had not applied for admission to the U.S., and that it is currently working with the Mexican Consulate to allow her to come to the funeral.