“Migrant influencer” Leonel Moreno has been ordered by a judge to be deported.
The New York Post reported that an Ohio-based immigration judge ordered Moreno to be removed from the country.
Moreno entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and proceeded to become an “influencer,” encouraging other illegal immigrants to squat in homes.
The migrant influencer was arrested in Columbus, Ohio, in March.
Moreno told The Post from jail in April that he believed he was being “persecuted.”
“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,” he complained to the outlet, adding, “It’s all misinformation in the media about me. They’re defaming me. 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.
Despite the judge’s order, Moreno will likely remain in the United States. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has stopped accepting migrant flights in retaliation for economic sanctions placed on Venezuela over the country’s contested election.
In one of Moreno’s videos, the migrant displayed a wad of cash that he said he obtained without “being a slave.”
“That’s the difference between you and me,” Moreno said in the video, according to a translation. “I will always make money without a lot of the work.”
