Migrant TikToker and Venezuelan national Leonel Moreno, who has a 500,000-strong online following, offers tips on how to “invade” unoccupied homes and invoke squatter’s rights in the United States through his TikTok videos.
Illegals are taking America over one house at a time now. Leonel Moreno, a Venezuelan national known as @leitooficial_25 on TikTok and Instagram, residing in a Columbus, Ohio suburb, recently explained in a video that according to US law, “if a house is not inhabited, we can… pic.twitter.com/L8EatZM3Pp— nycphotog (@nycphotog) March 21, 2024
Many have said that the Venezuelan migrant’s, who is a resident of Columbus, Ohio, call to other illegal migrants to misuse American laws to take advantage of tax benefits and invoke adverse possession laws, commonly known as squatter’s rights, is problematic.
In one of his videos, shared on TikTok, he claimed his ‘African friends’ have “already taken about seven homes”.
He urges others to take advantage of squatters’ rights and which allow unlawful property occupants rights over the property they occupy without the owner’s consent, in certain circumstances, according to a report by the New York Post. In many of his videos, he tells migrants “if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it” under US law.
“You came to the United States to work, and I came to vacation, look at the difference. You and I didn’t come with the same purpose. You came to the United States to pay the taxes that you didn’t pay in Venezuela,” he says in one of his videos.
“I confess that I don’t like to work because it gives me allergies. You work, I don’t, but in the end, neither of us have money. They keep criticising us because I live off of taxes that you pay monthly,” he says in another video.
His recent video where he extends support to 15-year-old Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa, who was charged as an adult with attempted murder for allegedly shooting a tourist in Times Square and firing on cops.
“I invite you to look for [his] mother and all of us join to pay the bail, so that this young Venezuelan feels that you’re not alone in difficult times, but remembers that there is a God up there who sees. Today it could be him, tomorrow it could be you…He did something wrong, it’s okay,” he said in a TikTok, which went viral.
Many social media users have called for his arrest and Daniel Di Martino, a Venezuelan migrant himself who is now an US citizen and is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
“He’s just one of many who are ripping off the taxpayer because of our own badly written laws that allow them to collect some welfare and take years to decide asylum cases that likely will be denied,” Di Martino was quoted as saying by the New York Post.
Columnist Kirsten Fleming pointed out that Moreno also threatens US President Joe Biden, whom he calls “mi papa”, that he will mobilise voters away from him in November if TikTok is banned in the US.
The migrant crisis affecting the southern states of the US has become a national issue and has led to clashes between the Democrats and the Republicans in the US Congress as well state legislatures.
Democrat-led cities including New York City, Atlanta and Los Angeles are also highlighting issues with rising numbers of illegal immigrants.
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