Attorney Allegedly Defrauded Thousands Seeking Humanitarian Visas
WHO:
CNN - Alexandra Lozano, an attorney in Washington state.
CNN - Gabriel Martinez Garcia, a 30-year-old former client of Lozano.
CNN - Erika Gonzalez, an attorney with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking.
CNN - Angelo Calfo, an attorney representing Lozano.
CNN - Rafael Alvarez, a former employee of Lozano.
CNN - Amy Rios, former chief operating officer of Lozano's firm.
CNN - Erika Sanchez, a former client of Lozano.
CNN - Nora Murillo Moreno, a former client of Lozano.
CNN - Cecelia Levin, an attorney with the nonprofit Alliance for Immigrant Survivors.
CNN - Vicente Omar Barraza, an attorney behind the malpractice lawsuit.
WHAT:
CNN - Lozano is accused of creating fake stories of domestic abuse and human trafficking to apply for humanitarian visas without her clients' knowledge.
CNN - Lozano's firm, Luz del Camino Legal, closed amid allegations and she surrendered her law license.
CNN - Lozano's signature is on more than 53,000 pending cases.
CNN - At least 920 immigration service scams were reported in 2025.
CNN - Lozano's firm earned $1.7 million teaching other law firms legal strategies for humanitarian visas.
CNN - Domestic abuse claims more than tripled between the 2020 and 2025 fiscal years, from nearly 15,000 applications to upward of 53,000 per year.
CNN - Human trafficking claims jumped from around 1,000 applications to more than 37,000 during the same period.
WHERE:
CNN - Washington state, where Lozano practiced law.
CNN - Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina, where Lozano allegedly enlisted employees to provide legal advice.
WHEN:
CNN - Lozano's firm shut down on June 10.
CNN - The bar accused Lozano of fraud in May.
CNN - Lozano worked from 2022 to 2024 in Colombia.
CNN - The lawsuits against Lozano were filed in May.
WHY:
CNN - Lozano allegedly preyed on immigrants' desperation to drain their bank accounts while leaving them at risk of deportation.
CNN - The Trump administration claimed a surge in applications since 2020 was a sign of widespread fraud, prompting an overhaul of humanitarian programs.
HOW:
CNN - Lozano built an assembly-line system to rush through applications, copying clients' signatures onto documents they never saw.
CNN - Lozano's firm probed clients for issues at home or work and spun them as abuse cases that didn’t meet the threshold for humanitarian programs.
CNN - Clients were asked to sign blank papers, leading to false claims in their applications.
(UPDATED June 29, 2026 14:20 UTC)
In a shocking development, attorney Alexandra Lozano is facing serious allegations of creating fake stories of domestic abuse and human trafficking to secure humanitarian visas for clients without their knowledge, leading to the closure of her firm, Luz del Camino Legal. Lozano's signature appears on more than 53,000 pending cases, and she reportedly earned $1.7 million teaching other law firms how to navigate these legal strategies, while domestic abuse and human trafficking claims surged dramatically between 2020 and 2025. The accusations highlight a troubling pattern of exploiting immigrants' desperation, as clients were allegedly pressured to sign blank documents, resulting in false claims that left them vulnerable to deportation.