By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2025-04-02 21:16:02 | Updated at 2025-04-04 00:35:33
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The wife of the brazen “migrant influencer” who encouraged other illegal newcomers to squat in American homes shared her outrage over his behavior in the US — and revealed that the two have separated — a week after President Trump deported her husband back to Venezuela.
Veronica Torres, Leonel Moreno’s wife and mother to their US citizen baby, previously spoke to The Post after his arrest in Ohio. At the time, she was tearful and lost without her husband.
But now, Torres says she’s separated from Moreno and hopes he learns from his mistakes in the US.
“How sad to see how he could have been a better person and a good father, and yet he had a whole life ahead of him and didn’t take advantage of it as the father of your only daughter,” Torres said in one recent TikTok post that showed the images of Moreno walking off the deportation flight.
“I wish you luck and hope you can improve as a person, that you can think clearly, and that all the hate you carry inside doesn’t go out on my daughter,” she added.
In another social media video, Torres told her followers that the two had separated, hitting back at her critics who said she was “ungrateful” for the “fame” he gave her.
“Regardless of how he wanted to give me fame or how I became famous or not, I don’t see it that way,” Torres explained.
“There are many people who tell me ‘you should take advantage of it’ and no, I’m not interested. I just want to be an ordinary person who uploads some of their things daily or something that is exciting for them, I’m not interested in fame.
“Me and Leonel are no longer together, it’s been a while since then, and it’s really uncomfortable all those questions that people ask me, like what’s going on, where is he,” she added.
Moreno had encouraged fellow illegal migrants to “invade abandoned houses” — and waved around wads of government cash handouts — in sick TikToks.
“I didn’t cross the Rio Grande to work like a slave,” he said in a post while flashing $100 bills.
Moreno also bragged that he used his 1-year-old daughter to gain social media clout, while thanking “Papa Biden” for footing the bills to support the baby.
But Moreno soon fell from grace when he was deported last week to Venezuela after the Trump administration secured a deal with the Maduro regime to resume removal flights to the narco state.
The freeloading migrant upset his fellow passengers, who believed he poorly portrayed Venezuelan migrants, on the flight back to his home country, Venezuela’s Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello said.
Leonel had to be placed in an isolated section of the plane with security officers to keep the situation at bay.
The firebrand TikToker was released into the US after crossing the Texas border illegally in 2022, but he failed to show up to his local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office for required check-in appointments, and the feds arrested him in Gahanna, Ohio, in March 2024.
An immigration judge then handed Moreno a deportation order in October.
At the time, the feds couldn’t send him back to Venezuela because the Maduro regime wasn’t accepting the flights from the US.
Upon Trump’s return to the White House in January, his administration brokered a deal with the South American nation for the flights to resume.
