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An NYPD union boss and ICE chief have both blamed Mayor Bill De Blasio for the rape and murder of a 92-year-old woman by an undocumented migrant who had been let out of custody under the city's sanctuary status last year. 

Maria Fuertes was sexually assaulted and strangled outside her Queens home earlier this month with a broken spine,rib fractures and bruising. She later died in the hospital.  

Her alleged killer is Reeaz Khan, a 21-year-old immigrant from Guyana who had been let out of police custody six weeks earlier after being arrested on assault and weapon charges. Authorities say he followed the woman home then attacked her. 

ICE had requested to be notified when he was released but because New York follows a sanctuary city policy for undocumented migrants, they never go the call. 

 He was freed back onto the streets of the city. ICE already issued a statement this week laying the blame for Fuertes' death at his feet. 

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