An illegal alien who took to social media to encourage other illegal aliens to squat in abandoned houses has been deported back to Venezuela.
Venezuelan national Leonel Moreno went viral on TikTok last year when he showed off a stack of dollar bills, boasted about handouts from the federal government, and encouraged other illegal aliens to squat in uninhabited houses in the United States.
“I didn’t cross the Rio Grande to work like a slave,” he said in one video posted to TikTok. Now Moreno has been sent back to his home country of Venezuela.
Moreno crossed the southern border and into Eagle Pass, Texas, under the Biden administration on April 23, 2022. He was released into the interior of the country and failed to appear for check-ins with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), leading to his arrest in Columbus, Ohio, in March 2024.
The 27-year-old Venezuelan national was
