A man accused of strangling a naturalized American and mother of four to death in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's district last year is an illegal immigrant who entered the country after encountering federal agents at the border. It became clear. ICE officials told FOX News Digital.
Now, the victim's immigrant family is calling on President-elect Donald Trump to investigate the woman's death, saying the woman was forced to cross the border until she killed her landlord after she tried to evict him for being in the country illegally. They want to know why he was not detained. The unruly, jobless tenants hung out all day drinking and smoking pot.
Undocumented immigrant Deavi Vidal Carrillo, 20, who had a troubled past in his native Colombia, was released at the border without proper testing and was later accused of killing Zoraida Leo, a migrant from the Dominican Republic. It is said that there is According to her sister, both Republics became naturalized in 2018 and have “realized the American dream.”
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Zoride Leo (left in both images) and her sister Maria Leo (right in both images). (Provided by the family through Hiram Monserrate)
But Leo's life ended on Dec. 5, when Vidal Carrillo confronted him over Leo's unruly behavior and told him to pack up and leave, his family said. He spoke to Fox News Digital through Hiram Monserrate, a Democrat. District leader.
That's when Vidal Carrillo strangled her to death, according to the Queens District Attorney's Office. Leo's son discovered her body in the bathroom doorway of her home. Prosecutors said Vidal Carrillo had scratches on her face and was crying at the scene when police arrived.
An autopsy determined she died from strangulation. She leaves behind three sons and a daughter.
Family members, residents and local leaders rallied in front of Leo's home Wednesday to demand answers and demand justice. They talked about how, before her death, Leo cared for her ailing 85-year-old mother, was an active member of her church, and was a member of a local women's rights group.
They are also outraged that local prosecutors did not release Mr. Leo's immigration status after the killing, and that he did not show up for immigration court before his death.
“I came here legally in the 1990s. My family worked and played by the rules and lived the American dream,” Maria Leo, the victim's sister, told FOX News Digital in a statement.
Illegal immigrant Davey Vidal Carrillo was charged with murder. (Courtesy of Hiram Monserrate)
“Federal authorities let this delinquent go free and he murdered an innocent woman, my sister. Unless the authorities told the truth that if they had kept Davi Vidal in custody, my sister would still be alive today. There are other incidents like this in our country.''The reality is that people have been victims of immigration. ”
They say prosecutors have not been transparent about the case and have been kept in the dark about the progress of the case. They also want to know why the DA didn't disclose that he was in the country illegally. Fox News Digital raised these questions with the Queens District Attorney's Office and received a statement saying, “The defendant has been indicted and remanded. The case is proceeding at its normal pace.”
Maria Leo says she wants the whole truth to be revealed.
“We need integrity and no cover-ups or concealment of facts. I don't know why all the information about this incident was not disclosed in the first place. Mr. President-elect, my family needs answers. “I'm looking for it,” Maria Leo said.
Vidal Carrillo is currently being held at Rikers Island, and ICE officials told FOX News Digital that he filed an immigration complaint at the jail objecting to his release on the same day he was arrested. of new york post Vidal Carrillo was the first to report that he was an illegal immigrant.
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ICE detainees are calling on local law enforcement to report noncitizens arrested on criminal charges to immigration authorities.
A 2014 City Council law signed by former Mayor Bill de Blasio limited the city's cooperation with ICE “detainees” except in certain cases that posed a danger to public safety. Under the law, the NYPD is not allowed to reveal an individual's immigration status to the public.
Hiram Monserrate with the Leo family and local residents (Courtesy of Hiram Monserrate)
Vidal Carrillo crossed the southern border near San Luis, Arizona, in June 2022 at the age of 17, after which Border Patrol issued him a citation and placed him in deportation proceedings, ICE officials told Fox News Digital.
The family has not contacted Ocasio-Cortez, the district representative, and instead asked Monserrate for support in seeking justice. Fox News Digital reached out to Ocasio-Cortez's office for comment regarding Leo's death, but did not immediately receive a response.
The progressive lawmaker previously called for abolishing ICE and also proposed abolishing the Department of Homeland Security, the umbrella agency that oversees ICE.
In September 2022 video – Just three months after Vidal Carrillo entered the United States illegally – she said immigrants and refugees coming to the United States are a “huge blessing.” She called for a path to citizenship for all illegal immigrants in the United States
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“Immigration and refugees are one of the only reasons the United States is in any way broadly as prosperous or accomplished, economically, demographically, and socially. , there is still a distributional problem,'' Ocasio-Cortez said, and it is no different between illegal immigrants arriving in the United States today and illegal immigrants who arrived generations ago.
“And that includes illegal immigrants. By the way, I'm talking about all immigrants,” she said, noting that about half of her district is made up of immigrants.
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The incident occurred in the district of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez is pictured with Congresswoman Cori Bush at the “Asylum is a Right” rally. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, Monserrate says the Leos are a typical American model family and that Zoraida Leo deserves to live in a safe community.
“They came to the United States legally from the Dominican Republic. They worked hard, raised large families, attended church, bought homes, and engaged in social activities. America needs more of that. “Secure borders are a necessity, not a talking point,'' and all parties must work to ensure that,'' Monserrate said at the rally.
“The Leo family and this predominantly immigrant community are calling on the next president, the Senate majority leader, and the speaker of the House to end the bipartisanship that has torn this country apart and sustained our broken immigration system. Let's fix it. The American people deserve no less.”
