Illegal Immigrant ‘Influencer’ Who Encouraged Freeloading and Squatting Finally Sent Back to Venezuela
“I have thought about invading a house in the United States. I found out that there is a law that says that if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it.”
Back in the spring and summer of 2024, a man who had entered the United States illegally during the Biden administration amassed a significant TikTok following and infuriated Americans in the process by, among other things, encouraging illegal immigrants to freeload and squat once they made it to America.
The man, later identified as a Venezuelan by the name of Leonel Moreno, also posted videos alongside his infant child whom he used to try to garner sympathy. Instead, he was reported to child services:
But he also admitted in his stream of social media content, which spans TikTok and Instagram, that his brazen use of his 1-year-old daughter as a prop is now being investigated by authorities — and blamed his Venezuelan followers for reporting him to child services.
“You got what you wanted,” he tells his followers, clutching his daughter as he launches into a tearful rant. “What you did will never be pardoned by God.“Because of you they will take my daughter away, because of you, because of your evil hearts. It’s incredible that my fellow Venezuelans are capable of this.”
Videos of Moreno instructing his fellow illegals on how to do end runs around U.S. laws and take over homes outraged conservatives and put him on ICE’s radar:
Leonel Moreno, @leitooficial_25, posted a video this week advising illegal aliens living in the United States to “invade” American homes. “If a house is not inhabited, we can seize it,” Moreno tells his followers, while trying to come off as an expert on American squatter’s rights laws.
“I have thought about invading a house in the United States,” a man identified as Leonal Moreno said in the TikTok video. “I found out that there is a law that says that if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it.”
Don’t live on the streets and be a “public burden,” Moreno advises illegals who found their way over the border. He also advises the illegal squatters that the law says deteroiated homes can be sold by the illegals who squat.
Watch:
Leonel Moreno, the TikTok influencer who encouraged illegals to squat in houses and take advantage of squatters rights laws has been arrested. pic.twitter.com/TnlCPU91SW
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 29, 2024
Though he was ordered to be deported months after his arrest, he wasn’t because at the time Venezuela was not accepting repatriation flights:
EXCLUSIVE: “Migrant influencer” Leonel Moreno, who went viral on TikTok for encouraging illegal border crossers to squat in US homes, has been ordered deported by an immigration judge — but he likely won’t be kicked out of the country anyway b/c his home country of Venezuela… pic.twitter.com/6LX4BQBAEs
— Jennie Taer 🎗️ (@JennieSTaer) September 16, 2024
Thanks to President Donald Trump, they are now, and as of this week, Moreno is back in Venezuela. But his trip home was not without its drama, according to reports:
[Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado] Cabello stressed that many of the deportees on the plane were “angry” at Moreno and as such, he necessitated special security measures.
“He [Moreno] was on the list of those who were there and he will go through the same procedure — now, what happened with that gentleman is that many of the people who were on the flight were upset because his campaign was to point out that Venezuelans in the world are criminals. So many of those who were there were angry,” Cabello said.
“From the first moment we had to provide special security, and they put him on the flight because the other passengers, the other comrades who were coming were very upset,” he continued.
NEW: Venezuelan illegal immigrant influencer Leonel Moreno was deported back to his home country earlier this week, according to the New York Post.
The ultimate FAFO!
The migrant famously encouraged illegal immigrants to squat in people’s homes.
Moreno caused such a… pic.twitter.com/caiZUzO98z
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) March 28, 2025
🚨 BREAKING: It has been confirmed that Leonel Moreno famous Venezuelan TikTok influencer has been deported.
Officials say he had to receive special security, because the rest of the deportees were blaming him for Venezuelans being deported. pic.twitter.com/gaRXtmCyBu
— Maris (@maris6544) March 28, 2025
Per @JennieSTaer's original reporting, Leito was a sergeant with the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM), which bolsters Trump's Alien Enemies Act litigation. He should've gone to CECOT https://t.co/ISLz7dhJ4j
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 28, 2025
https://t.co/S2BzTQ2vqY pic.twitter.com/q9rif8CjnP
— Kaelan Dorr (@Kaelan47) March 28, 2025
Good riddance.
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GOOD! This should have happened ages ago, but Brandon the pedophile is also a traitor.
Brandon? Oh! You’re referring to the old guy Jill Biden had put in a nursing home because he couldn’t remember who he was.
“It’s incredible that my fellow Venezuelans are capable of this.”
Biden must be crying. Incitement to steal, followed by appeals to his own tribe — what a good Democrat he would have made!
“Those were the days, eh Cornpop?”
They were pissed because his grift was bringing even more attention to them.
Pity they didn’t accidentally put him on the plane headed to the El Salvador Hilton…..he already has the requisite hairstyle.
He was such a happy go lucky fellow.
It’s hard to imagine the mind set of people among us that place the rights of people like this over the rights of the law abiding, In criminal law, in immigration, in government. The damage they are causing to protect us from ourselves. How did they ever become so smart? That does not stop them from sanctimony.
They may now be throwing kinks in the common sense, pro-American movement, but like most of their ideas, they will be rejected. Just like in the election. Only the tip of their corruption is exposed. For all that Trump may screw up, it’s far preferable to the sickening Orwellian reality of Obamism.
What is the origin of laws allowing squatters in the first place.
Ask Milhouse. I believe he has already posted here once about how venerable and logical such laws are; and how without them, we would suffer from a crisis of a surplus of property sitting idle for decades while subject to questionable and confusing records of ownership. Or there is a nonzero chance it was someone else that posted this, but it just sounds so much like Milhouse.
The end of feudalism also ended reciprocal rights/duties of landowner to villagers. When enclosure of land came to an area with more modern farming it made the land more productive and needed less labor. The unneeded labor aka villagers were pushed out, if lucky to new industry in Northern England. Some went to USA. Less fortunate moved to waste/less.valuable land but eventually got rounded up and shipped off to Australia or the Army/Navy and/or.died of disease starvation. Tough to be an uneducated farm laborer deemed excess…they found out the real minimum wage is zero.
We have lots of holdover common law crap that really is no longer necessary. ‘Common law marriage’ as one. The point of accepting a ‘common law marriage’ was the unavailability of Clergy. Today folks can easily go to the CT house so there’s no reason to retain ‘common law marriage’. ‘If you like it, put a ring on it’ is very easy today v on the frontier in the backwoods of 1825.
To be fair, when I was in Texas I looked into common law marriage for a bit before we were married. It was harder to get than getting married and required documents, applications, and fees at City Hall or the Courthouse anyways.
So at least one state essentially agrees with you and decided to make it the harder part rather than outlaw it.
Some states don’t even recognize common-law marriage. I know California does not.
CA does recognize common law marriage established in other States so if you have one and your family moves to CA then you are still married. Not being ‘married’ in CA doesn’t end some of the same obligations generated from a legal marriage. So if you have a child you may be subject to CA child support and your ‘not spouse’ is potentially entitled to some of the same protection as a ‘legal spouse’ post dissolution of the relationship.
My ex and I looked into common law marriage before we entered ours. Surprisingly, most of what you hear about them is myth (like having to live together for X number of years). A common law marriage has but a single requirement and two conditions. The requirement is that you “hold out,” that is you present yourself to the public as married. The conditions are that both partners agree and that the presentation as a married couple is not being done to commit fraud (by misrepresenting your status).
If what they have in Texas involves the state at all, it’s not a common law marriage, just something they’ve given that label.
Usually it is both presenting yourselves as a ‘married couple’ and doing so over a specific timeline with 7 years being the rule of thumb.
What I would prefer to see is a streamlined system where folks ‘choose their own adventure’. Want to be tied down with duties and obligations of legal marriage and get the legal benefits? Go get marriage license. Don’t want the State involved b/c you don’t want the State trying to enforce duties/obligations then as long as you don’t have a marriage license then you’re not tied down but you get none of the legal benefits either.
Let adults choose. If folks want a religious ceremony then do so BUT now they should be bound by the structures of that particular denomination views/rules on marriage and divorce. Life is all about choices and trade-off and adults or those who reach age of.consent for marriage should be able to choose how they wish to live.their life with minimal interference from the State.
Paternity should be established by mandatory DNA test at birth. No more legal presumptions are needed when DNA tests exist. Custody baseline should always be 50/50 and zero child support as both Parents have same obligation and same in home time. Any deviation should be based on evidence and adversarial process. Likewise alimony in the 21st.century is a crock. If a spouse wants to retain the ‘lifestyle to which they became accustomed’… they should stay married….unless they are prepared to continue to deliver to their former Spouse the things they brought to the marriage and/or the monetary value of those things post divorce.
My ex and I had a common law marriage. I’m an atheist and she was not religious. Neither of us thought the state had any business in our personal affairs. More than 20 years later, we divorced just like couples who have a “real” marriage.
Religion’s involvement in a marriage is obviously voluntary. But the state should have no role in marriages. What you said about common law marriage is correct, but now, seeing that preachers are no longer in short supply, maybe it’s time for the state to butt out again. People like me, who would rather not involve the state, can just become married by right, no state or religion-extended permission needed.
I always thought the rationale for common law marriage was to benefit the long-term “widow” of a man who wouldn’t marry her, and who society didn’t want to see screwed out of an equitable share of his estate. Similar to “palimony” which was invented as the shotrter-term version.
Oh yeah — and legitimization of their progeny.
What we consider a legal marriage wasn’t always conducted between commoners. Marriage ceremonies were for landed people and royalty. It then became fashionable for less and less wealthy people to have a ceremony (in imitation of their “betters”), until the point that it became usual for all. But the people retained the right to be married at common law. The requirement for the state’s involvement in the institution is a very late encroachment.
That too, but the rationale behind it was lack of access to Clergy. Today that’s not true. Any couple where both parties want to wed can certainly do so today. It also ties into the very outdated notion of presumed paternity for a husband, to include a ‘common law’ marriage.
IMO we should reform family court. No need to recognize common law marriage nor presumed paternity in the 21st century b/c we have options available to folks. Make DNA test at birth mandatory b/c fwiw about 30% ish of those who do a paternity test find out they are not the Father. To be fair it is a self selected group biased towards that result.
Junk common law marriage altogether. If someone wants the legal benefits and duties of marriage they can go to the CT house. Same if they desire a.secular marriage. If they want a marriage with a religious ceremony then get married under the authority of their Church BUT they should then need to follow the rules of the Church…so of that particular denomination says no divorce or only under x,y,z conditions then that’s what you are stuck with b/c you entered into it knowingly and willingly.
Not to be dogmatic, but I think you ‘re referring to the period in England when land owners turned to keeping sheep (wool was in high demand), and thus it was the farmers who were thrown off the land and forced into the cites. Then the Industrial Revolution happened, and although the use of more sophisticated tools probably did force more people off the land, it also opened up factory jobs. I think that’s a rough sketch of what happened
Yes and no. Enclosure occurred over a very long period, some as far back as 12th century. The open field system and maintenance of ‘commons’ where everyone had certain rights to pasture X # of animals or gather firewood or harvest berries.
You are correct that enclosure sped up with the growing industrialization. When wool prices rose due to.demand from new spinning machines many landowners enclosed to run sheep. It required far less labor and was a more profitable use of land. The growth in the North of England from industrialization and creation of new towns around the textile mills and coal/iron mining and steel production also created demand for food. Wheat prices rose and became the most profitable crop. Owners enclosed to bring all their land under cultivation including the old ‘common’.
There are times when landlords unethically try to push people out even if they pay and have a lease. I believe like many things there was a valid reason but it requires society and government both acting in good faith rather than grift.
Squatters rights require adverse possession, which cannot be claimed if you are invited onto the property by, say, having a lease.
The original purpose squatters rights was to protect homeowners from someone with an ancient deed from claiming their property. It’s akin to a statute of limitations but for land. That’s why some states require a whopping 25 year posession — literally a generation. In CA, it’s a mere 5 years, where it’s clearly been repurposed to keep improved land from falling into disuse.
What a brilliant guy. Illegally occupy houses in a country where many citizens own guns and have the right to protect their houses from intruders. Squatters have no property rights and illegal immigrants have no rights.
You have a good point! But I think the squatter laws apply to unoccupied properties. Like if you inherit a house in a different state, which you leave unoccupied while considering what to do with it. But it’s theft, no doubt about it,
I’ve heard enough versions of “I came back from a two week vacation and found my house occupied by squatters that the police refuse to evict” to realize that some states have truly crappy squatting laws.
If you need to evict squatters, don’t call the police — call the Sherriff’s office. Police are usually hired by big blue cities. The Sherriff is usually elected at-large by property owners.
Most of these scammers/squatters gin up a fake lease so when the owner calls the cops they present the fake lease agreement and the cops are hamstrung b/c its a civil matter. If some dude is just sitting on the couch without any sort or documentation the cops can remove them…in most jurisdictions…which is why they use the fake lease agreement.
You can still hire squatter hunters who will take direct action against squatters. This is important because while the owner’s hands may be tied by the legal process, some rando’s hands aren’t, and the squatters have no more rights than some guy you’ve legitimately leased the property to.
Yep. Counter squatting works as.well, put in folks to make the squatters life miserable. Depending on the area and if your neighbors have a back hoe or an open mind and a closed mouth so would a more aggressive DIY approach.
now the pos can squat on his bf knob
It would have been cheaper to just shoot the bastard. I’m always in favor of saving taxpayer dollars. But then you have idiots like Boasberg who insist these bastards have rights.
Professional courtesy.