Here's a cheery start to the weekend

(with apologies to dan hicks)

Brazen ‘migrant influencer’ who flashed cash, urged other illegals to squat in US homes deported to Venezuela

Leonel Moreno, who encouraged illegal migrants to “invade abandoned houses” in sick TikToks, was sent back to the narco state this week, after President Trump resumed deportation flights to the country. ….

Moreno crossed the Texas border illegally in April 2022 and was quickly released into the US.

The Venezuelan border crosser, however, failed to appear for his required check-ins with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), leading the feds to arrest him in Gahanna, Ohio, in March 2024.

An immigration judge ordered Moreno’s deportation last October, but Venezuela refused to accept any deportation flights at the time.

Once President Trump returned to the White House and commenced his mass deportation campaign, Venezuela began allowing the US deportation flights to land again.

Moreno was moved to an ICE detention center in Conroe, Texas, on Feb. 26 to prepare for his deportation.

Moreno caused outrage while living in the US illegally for his viral TikTok videos, where he bragged about the handouts migrants could receive from the US government and encouraged other Venezuelan migrants to “invade abandoned houses.”

Moreno used his massive social media following to brag about government handouts.

“I didn’t cross the Rio Grande to work like a slave,” Moreno said in one clip while waving around $100 bills.

Unfortunately, the good news is tempered by the bad:

Moreno also said he used his 1-year-old baby, a US citizen, to boost his social media presence and boasted that he and his wife didn’t pay anything for their daughter’s birth thanks to “Papa Biden.”

At least we’ll have a nine or ten year respite before Moreno’s spawn begins his own criminal career, but shucks, couldn’t we have persuaded this “good husband, good father” to take his sponges collection with him?

While in jail, Moreno spoke to The Post and wailed about being a victim of unjust “persecution.”

“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,” Moreno moaned.

“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,” he added.