A man accused of strangling a naturalized American citizen and mother of four to death Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Last year, the district was revealed to be an illegal immigrant who was released into the country after being met at the border by federal agents, an ICE official told Fox News Digital.

Now the victim’s immigrant family is calling President-elect Donald Trump to investigate the woman’s death, saying they want to know why he wasn’t apprehended at the border before he killed his landlady after she tried to escape him because he was an unruly, unemployed tenant who stayed out all day around, drink alcohol and smoke pot.

They say the illegal migrant, Deiby Vidal Carrillo, 20, had a troubled past in his native Colombia but was not properly vetted before being allowed to leave at the border and then killed Zoraida Leo, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic. The Republic that, according to her sister, “realized the American dream” in 2018 when they both became naturalized citizens.

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Zoraido Leo, left in both pictures, and her sister Maria Leo, right in both pictures. (Provided by family via Hiram Monserrate)

But Leo’s life ended Dec. 5 when she confronted Vidal Carrillo about his unruly behavior and told him to pack up and leave, the family told Fox News Digital through a spokesperson: Hiram Monserrateformer Democratic New York State Senator and local Democratic district leader.

That’s when Vidal Carrillo strangled her to death, according to the Queens district attorney’s office, which says Leo’s son found her body in the doorway of a bathroom inside her home. Vidal Carrillo was crying at the scene when police arrived with scratch marks on his face, prosecutors say.

An autopsy determined she died of strangulation. She leaves behind three sons and a daughter.

Family members, residents and local leaders held a rally outside Leo’s home on Wednesday, demanding answers and demanding justice. They talked about how Leo cared for her ailing 85-year-old mother before her death, was an active member of her church and was a member of a local women’s rights group.

They are also upset that local prosecutors did not make his immigration status public after the murder, and that he never showed up for his immigration hearing before Leo’s death.

“I came here legally in the 1990s. My family worked and played by the rules and achieved the American dream,” Maria Leo, the victim’s sister, told Fox News Digital in a statement.

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

“Federal authorities let this criminal go, and he killed an innocent woman, my sister. Truth be told, if the authorities had arrested Davi Vidal, my sister would be alive today. There are other cases like this in our country. where people have been victimized by migrants.

They say prosecutors are not transparent about the case and have been kept in the dark about how the case is progressing. They also want to know why the prosecutor’s office did not reveal that he was in the country illegally. Fox News Digital has reached out to the Queens District Attorney’s office for comment.

“We need honesty, no cover-ups, no hiding the facts. I don’t know why all the information about this case wasn’t revealed from the beginning. Mr. President-elect, my family wants answers,” said Maria Leo.

Vidal Carrillo is now being held at Rikers Island, and ICE officials filed an immigration case at the jail against his release the same day he was arrested, an ICE official told Fox News Digital. The New York Post was the first to report that Vidal Carrillo is an illegal alien.

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ICE holders require local law enforcement to notify the immigration enforcement agency when non-citizens are arrested on criminal charges.

A 2014 City Council bill signed by former Mayor Bill de Blasio limited the city’s cooperation with ICE “detainers” except in cases that pose a risk to public safety. By law, the NYPD is not allowed to disclose a person’s immigration status to the public.

Hiram Monserrate, with the Leo family and local residents (Provided by Hiram Monserrate)

Vidal Carrillo crossed the southern border near San Luis, Arizona, in June 2022 as a 17-year-old, before the Border Patrol served him with a notice to appear in court and placed him in proceedings of removal, an ICE official told Fox News Digital.

The family has not been in contact with Ocasio-Cortez, who represents their district, and instead approached Monserrate for help in seeking justice. Fox News Digital reached out to Ocasio-Cortez’s office for comment on Leo’s death, but did not immediately hear back.

The progressive congresswoman has previously called for ICE to be abolished and has also suggested eliminating Homeland Security, the umbrella department that oversees ICE.

In September 2022 video — just three months after Vidal Carrillo entered the U.S. illegally — she said immigrants and refugees coming to the U.S. are “a tremendous blessing.” She called for a path to citizenship for all illegal immigrants in the USA

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“Immigrants and refugees are one of the only reasons why, economically, demographically, and socially, the United States is even as prosperous or as broadly accomplished, there are still distributional problems,” Ocasio-Cortez said, adding that there is no difference between undocumented immigrants arriving in the US today and those who arrived generations ago.

“And that includes undocumented immigrants, by the way, I mean all immigrants,” she said, noting that about half of her district is made up of immigrants.

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The incident took place in the district of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez pictured with Rep. Cori Bush at an “asylum is a right” rally. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Monserrate says the Leo family is the quintessential American family and that Zoraida Leo deserved to live in a safe community.

“They came to the US legally from dominican republic. They worked hard, raised a big family, went to church, bought a house and got civilly engaged. America needs more of this. A secure border is a necessity and not a talking point and all parties should work to ensure this,” Monserrate said at the rally.

“The Leo family and this majority immigrant community are calling on the President-elect, Senate Leader and House Speaker to end the hyper-partisanship that has torn this nation apart and perpetuated a broken immigration system. Let’s fix this. The American people deserve no less.”