Venezuelan migrant, Leonal Moreno, posted a video to his social media urging his over 300,000 followers to “unite” and pay the fines of a 15-year-old migrant who allegedly shot a vacationer in Instances Sq. earlier this month.
“I invite you to search out [his] mom and [for] all of us to unite to pay the fines [so] that the younger Venezuelan feels that he’s not alone throughout tough moments. Keep in mind that up there there’s a God who sees all the things [down here],” the Venezuelan TikToker mentioned.
He continued,”A whole nation [is] on prime of him as an alternative of serving to him – keep in mind that the younger man goes to be launched. And he might be launched, are you aware why? As a result of he’s underage.”
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Venezuelan migrant, Leonel Moreno’s video about Rivas-Figueroa’s prices. (TikTok @leitooficial_25)
“You don’t know when God goes to place you in a state of affairs just like the one this younger man is in,” Moreno continued within the clip, referencing the tried homicide prices towards teenager Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa, who’s being tried as an grownup for his actions on February eighth.
“Let’s unite forces in order that this little one might be free and has a possibility,” he captioned his 90-second TikTok video in Spanish, which has since garnered 2.5 million views.
The feedback part of the video collected blended sentiments, with one person calling Moreno a “clown”, whereas one other wrote, “He broke the legislation, and he ought to keep in jail or return to his nation.”
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Leonel Moreno, talking about his causes for coming to America. (TikTok @leitooficial_25)
Moreno’s content material focuses round his life-style and the way he earns an revenue by begging strangers on the streets and residing off of cash distributed by the federal government.
In one other video posted February twenty first, Moreno expressed his intention behind migrating to the US, stating, “You got here to the US to work, and I got here to trip, have a look at the distinction. You and I didn’t include the identical function. You got here to the US to pay the taxes that you just didn’t pay in Venezuela.”
The identical day, the migrant posted one other video, admitting, “I confess that I don’t wish to work as a result of it provides me allergy symptoms. You’re employed, I don’t, however in the long run, neither of us have cash. They hold criticizing us as a result of I dwell off of taxes that you just pay month-to-month.”
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President Biden and migrants making an attempt to cross into the U.S. (Getty Photos)
The New York Submit reported that the Venezuelan TikToker lives in Columbus, Ohio together with his associate and their daughter.
Manhattan Institute fellow and Venezuelan native, Daniel Di Martino, informed The New York Submit, “People ought to be outraged to see how somebody can come… and abuse the legal guidelines and advantages of America. Sadly, he’s simply one among many who’re ripping off the taxpayer due to our personal badly written legal guidelines that enable them to gather some welfare and take years to determine asylum instances that seemingly might be denied.”
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Because the migrant disaster continues throughout the nation, the violent actions of these like Rivas-Figueroa and Jose Antonio Ibarra carry a plethora of inquiries to the floor relating to the state of immigration and the Biden administration’s willingness to handle the continuing disaster.
President Biden just lately mentioned, “Congress has had a protracted, proud historical past — a bipartisan historical past — on immigration reform and abiding by our worldwide treaty obligations, which we signed associated to immigration. These reforms made America a nation of legal guidelines, a nation of immigrants and the strongest economic system on this planet. However one thing modified. Over time, our legal guidelines and our sources have not stored up with our immigration system, and it is damaged. And our politics has failed to repair it.”
