Illegal migrant charged with killing mother of four in AOC's district

A antheral accused of strangling a naturalized U.S. national and parent of 4 to decease successful Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s territory past twelvemonth has been revealed arsenic being an amerciable migrant who was released into the state aft being encountered astatine the borderline by national agents, an ICE authoritative tells Fox News Digital. 

Now the victim's migrant household are calling connected President-elect Donald Trump to analyse the woman’s death, saying they privation to cognize wherefore helium hadn't been detained astatine the borderline earlier allegedly going connected to slay his landlady aft she tried to evict him for being an unruly, jobless tenant who lounged astir each time drinking intoxicant and smoking pot. 

They accidental the amerciable migrant, 20-year-old Deiby Vidal Carrillo, had a troubled past successful his autochthonal Colombia but was not decently vetted earlier being fto spell astatine the borderline and past going connected to allegedly termination Zoraida Leo, an migrant from the Dominican Republic who, according to her sister, "realized the American Dream" successful 2018 erstwhile they some became naturalized citizens. 

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Zoraido Leo, near successful some images, and her sister Maria Leo, close successful some images.  (Provided by the household via Hiram Monserrate)

But Leo's beingness ended connected Dec. 5 erstwhile she confronted Vidal Carrillo implicit his unruly behaviour and told him to battalion his bags and leave, the household told Fox News Digital via their spokesperson, Hiram Monserrate, a erstwhile Democrat New York authorities legislator and section Democrat territory leader.

That's erstwhile Vidal Carrillo strangled her to death, according to the Queens District Attorney's Office, who accidental Leo's lad recovered her assemblage astatine the entranceway to a bath wrong her home. Vidal Carrillo was crying astatine the country erstwhile constabulary arrived with scratch marks connected his face, prosecutors say.

An autopsy determined that she had died by strangulation. She leaves down 3 sons and a daughter.

Family members, residents and section leaders held a rally extracurricular Leo’s location connected Wednesday, demanding answers and calling for justice. They spoke astir how Leo had looked aft her ailing 85-year-old parent earlier her death, was an progressive subordinate of her religion and was a subordinate of a section women's rights group.

They are besides upset that section prosecutors had not made nationalist his migration presumption aft the sidesplitting and that helium ne'er showed up for his migration proceeding earlier Leo's death.

"I came present legally successful the 1990s. My household worked and played by the rules and realized the American Dream," Maria Leo, the victim’s sister told Fox News Digital successful a statement. 

Illegal migrant Deiby Vidal Carrillo has been charged with murder. (Provided by Hiram Monserrate)

"The national authorities fto this delinquent go, and helium killed an guiltless woman, my sister. The information needs to beryllium told that had the authorities held Davi Vidal successful custody my sister would beryllium live today. There are different cases similar this successful our state wherever radical were victimized by migrants. That’s the reality."

They accidental that prosecutors are not being transparent astir the lawsuit and that they person been kept successful the acheronian astir however the lawsuit is progressing. They besides privation to cognize wherefore the DA's bureau did not uncover that helium had been successful the state illegally. Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Queens District Attorney's Office for comment.

"We request honesty, nary cover-ups, nary hiding the facts. I don’t cognize wherefore each the accusation astir this lawsuit was not disclosed from the beginning. Mr. President-elect, my household wants answers," Maria Leo said. 

Vidal Carrillo is present being held astatine Rikers Island, and ICE officials lodged an migration detainer against his merchandise with the situation connected the aforesaid time helium was arrested, an ICE authoritative tells Fox News Digital. The New York Post was archetypal to study that Vidal Carrillo is an amerciable alien.

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ICE detainers telephone connected section instrumentality enforcement to notify the migration enforcement bureau erstwhile non-citizens are arrested connected transgression charges.

A 2014 City Council instrumentality signed by erstwhile Mayor Bill de Blasio constricted the city’s practice with ICE "detainers," but successful definite cases presenting a nationalist information risk. The NYPD is not allowed to uncover a person’s migration presumption to the nationalist nether law.

Hiram Monserrate, with the Leo household and section residents (Provided by Hiram Monserrate)

Vidal Carrillo crossed the confederate borderline adjacent San Luis, Arizona, successful June 2022 arsenic a 17-year-old earlier the Border Patrol served him with a announcement to look successful tribunal and placed him into removal proceedings, an ICE authoritative tells Fox News Digital.

The household person not been successful interaction with Ocasio-Cortez, who represents their district, and alternatively approached Monserrate for assistance successful their quest for justice. Fox News Digital reached retired to Ocasio-Cortez’s bureau for remark regarding Leo's decease but did not instantly person a response. 

The progressive congresswoman has antecedently called for ICE to beryllium abolished and besides suggested that Homeland Security, the umbrella section that oversees ICE, beryllium eliminated. 

In a September 2022 video – conscionable 3 months after Vidal Carrillo entered the U.S. illegally – she said that immigrants and refugees who travel to the U.S. are "an tremendous blessing." She has called for a way to citizenship for each illegal immigrants successful the U.S. 

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"Immigrants and refugees are 1 of the lone reasons why, economically, demographically and socially, the United States adjacent is successful immoderate mode arsenic prosperous oregon arsenic accomplished connected the wide sense, there’s inactive organisation issues," Ocasio-Cortez said, adding that determination is nary quality betwixt undocumented immigrants arriving successful the U.S. contiguous and those who arrived generations ago.  

"And that includes undocumented immigrants, by the way, I’m talking astir each immigrants," she said, noting that astir fractional of her district is comprised of immigrants. 

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The incidental took spot successful Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's district. Ocasio-Cortez pictured with Rep. Cori Bush astatine an "asylum is simply a right" rally. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Monserrate says that the Leo household are the quintessential exemplary American household and that Zoraida Leo deserved to unrecorded successful a harmless community. 

"They came to the U.S. legally from the Dominican Republic. They worked hard, raised a large family, went to church, bought a location and were civically engaged. America needs much of that. A unafraid borderline is simply a necessity and not a talking constituent and each parties should enactment connected ensuring that," Monserrate said astatine the rally. 

"The Leo household and this mostly migrant assemblage is calling upon the President-elect, the Senate Leader and Speaker of the House to extremity the hyper-partisanship that has ripped this federation isolated and maintained a breached migration system. Let’s hole it. The American radical merit nary less."