Venezuelan migrant Leonal Moreno published a video on his social networks urging his more than 300,000 followers to “unite” and pay the fines of a 15 year old migrant who allegedly shot a tourist in Times Square earlier this month.
“I invite you to look for (your) mother and (for) us all to unite to pay the fines (so) that the young Venezuelan feels that he is not alone in difficult times. Remember that up there there is a God who sees everything (down here),” said the Venezuelan TikToker.
He continued: “An entire nation (is) on top of him instead of helping him; remember the young man is going to be freed. And he will be freed, do you know why? Because he is a minor.”
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Venezuelan migrant, video by Leonel Moreno about Rivas-Figueroa’s accusations. (Tik Tok @leitooficial_25)
“You don’t know when God is going to put you in a situation like this young man is in,” Moreno continued in the clip, referencing the attempted murder charges against teenager Jesús Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa, who is being tried as an adult. for his actions on February 8.
“Let’s join forces so that this child can be free and have a chance,” he captioned his 90 second TikTok video in Spanish, which has since garnered 2.5 million views.
The video’s comments section garnered mixed feelings, with one user calling Moreno a “clown,” while another wrote, “he broke the law and should stay in jail or return to his country.”
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Leonel Moreno, talking about his reasons for coming to America. (Tik Tok @leitooficial_25)
Moreno’s content focuses on his lifestyle and how he earns income by begging from strangers on the streets and living off money distributed by the government.
In Another video posted on February 21.Moreno expressed his intention behind migrating to the United States, stating: “You came to work in the United States and I came on vacation, look at the difference. You and I did not come with the same purpose. You came to the United States to pay taxes.” that you didn’t pay in Venezuela.”
The same day, the migrant published another videoadmitting: “I confess that I don’t like working because it gives me allergies. You work, I don’t, but in the end neither of us has money. They continue to criticize us because I live on taxes that you pay monthly.”
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President Biden and migrants trying to cross into the US (Getty Images)
The New York Post reported that the Venezuelan TikToker lives in Columbus, Ohio with his partner and daughter.
Daniel Di Martino, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a native of Venezuela, told the New York Post: “Americans should be outraged to see how someone can come… and abuse the laws and benefits of the United States. Unfortunately, he is just “one of many who are ripping off taxpayers because of our own poorly drafted laws that allow them to collect certain welfare and take years to decide asylum cases that are likely to be denied.”
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As the migration crisis continues across the country, the violent actions of people like Rivas-Figueroa and José Antonio Ibarra bring to the surface a host of questions about the state of immigration and the Biden administration’s willingness to address the current crisis.
President Biden recently said“Congress has had a long and proud history, a bipartisan history, of immigration reform and fulfilling our international treaty obligations that we signed regarding immigration. These reforms made the United States a nation of laws, a nation of immigrants and the strongest economy in the world. But something changed. Over time, our laws and our resources have not kept up with our immigration system, and it is broken. And our politics have failed to fix it.”