Illegal alien behind social media squatting campaign has been deported

The so-called “Migrant Influencer” learned what a difference a new president can make a year after he was arrested amid his social media squatting campaign.

In spite of then-President Joe Biden’s claims that he’d done all that was in his power to do with regard to border security, President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has been a tour de force in exercising executive will. This week, that meant the resumption of deportation flights to Venezuela, including wayward national Leonel Moreno, a TikToker know for promoting abuse of American squatting laws.

“Update,” began a brief post by the White House Rapid Response account on X that captioned a video from Collin Rugg. “He has been deported.”

The video shared in March 2024 had been described in part as “Tiktoker is going viral by telling illegal immigrants how to ‘invade’ homes in America thanks to progressive squatting laws … Remarkable.”

Update:

He has been deported https://t.co/OrDNB7jN8W

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 28, 2025

According to the New York Post, Moreno had been on board a flight of deportees that had been given a hearty welcome by Venezuelan Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello who met them on the tarmac. The newspaper detailed, “The firebrand Tiktokker had to be placed in his own section with extra security to calm tensions,” after it was said his “disruptions” on board the flight had been upsetting other passengers.

Reposting one of the illegal alien’s infamous videos, Rugg shared Friday that Moreno’s fate was “The ultimate FAFO.”

“Leonel Moreno was seen giving a ‘thumbs up’ while being escorted off the planes. He illegally crossed the border under President Joe Biden in 2022 before making his way to Gahanna, Ohio,” he recapped. “Moreno previously taunted U.S. citizens and bragged about not paying anything for his daughter’s birth thanks to ‘Papa Biden.’”

NEW: The illegal immigrant influencer who was coaching other illegals on how to squat in American homes, has been deported to Venezuela.

The ultimate FAFO.

Leonel Moreno was seen giving a “thumbs up” while being escorted off the plane.

He illegally crossed the border under… pic.twitter.com/m3AN0X9UaL

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 28, 2025

Among the viral videos from the Venezuelan national, one included him contending, “If a house is not inhabited, we can seize it.”

“I have thought about invading a house in the United States. … Here in the United States, the law of land invasion applies,” he went on, “and I think that will be my next business: invading abandoned houses.”

Moreno was subsequently arrested in Ohio and, as had been reported, while an immigration judge had order deportation in September for the alien who’d been paroled into the country in April 2022 under the Biden administration, his removal from the country remained unlikely under the status quo as Venezuela refused to accept the return of its citizens.

As the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs had indicated this week, that was no longer the case.

“Today, deportation flights of Venezuelan illegal aliens to their homeland resumed via Honduras,” the bureau posted to X. “These individuals had no legal basis to remain in the United States. We expect to see a consistent flow of deportation flights to Venezuela going forward. Thank you to Honduran President Castro and her government for partnering to combat illegal immigration.”

Today, deportation flights of Venezuelan illegal aliens to their homeland resumed via Honduras. These individuals had no legal basis to remain in the United States. We expect to see a consistent flow of deportation flights to Venezuela going forward. Thank you to Honduran…

— Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (@WHAAsstSecty) March 24, 2025

Where Moreno was concerned, the illegal alien’s bold talk had withered during his time behind bars and was replaced with victimhood rhetoric as he had told the Post while detained, “I came here to the United States because of persecution in my country … But they’re doing the same thing to me in the United States — persecuting me.”

“It’s all misinformation in the media about me. They’re defaming me,” he claimed. “They’re misrepresenting me in the news … I am a good father a good husband, a good son, a good person, humble, respectful to people who respect me.”

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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