307 - Immigration and Title 42 with Abogada Alexandra Lozano

Listeners, we are back this week with Alexandra Lozano

Alexandra is an award-winning attorney, innovative CEO, game-changing mentor, and business advisor. Alexandra has completely transformed the landscape of immigration practice within the United States with her groundbreaking work with the Violence Against Women Act and the T Visa for survivors of human trafficking. She has changed thousands of lives of undocumented immigrants in her firm and the firms of attorneys throughout the United States through her mentoring and teaching of these strategies. She has written four books- three about business/law practice management and one about the T-visa.

Alexandra is on the cutting-edge technology in the legal realm, creating her own AI, machine learning, and other algorithms to better the law practice in her firm.

As the largest humanitarian immigration law firm in the United States, Alexandra and her world-class team serve thousands of clients annually, helping them gain legal status in the US. Her clients inspire her work because of their incredible sacrifices to come to the US and all they have achieved despite being forced to live in the shadows. Alexandra Lozano Immigration Law is a female-led, Latina-led law firm that changes lives.

Alexandra’s mission-centered approach to her practice has fueled the firm’s growth and placed her at #247 on the Inc5000 list in 2022, as well as being named 40 Under 40 by the Puget Sound Business Journal.

She is dedicated to advancing the Latin@ community in the US and is proud to have a team of hundreds of Latin@s (comprising more than 98% of her team).

With offices in Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Antonio, and Houston, and clients in 48 states, the firm’s goal is that every undocumented person in the United States has legal status.

During our conversation we talked about:

04:08 - Deciding to be an immigration attorney
04:38 - “How can I fight for human rights?”
05:13 - Title 42
06:42 - “They were just trying to figure out some way to put their racist policies into play”
09:08 - The way the border works
17:39 - “I think is like a sick power play”
20:20 - Her Global Entry Program was taken away
21:32 - The procedures for immigration
27:07 - How far back do these policies go
30:25 - “The deporter in chief”
33:12 - Who’s approving these legislations
34:29 - “Gold Star immigrants”
38:12 - Immigration and white people
40:43 - “The invisible backbone of America”
41:11 - What undocumented people need to know - both sides of the border