Two red hearts stood out on her fitted dress, one over her chest and another at the throat, similar to those in images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In the entryway to her office in Seattle, Washington, there was a large painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe, next to which her clients lit votive candles to pray for their cases. These religious symbols were not chosen at random. Alexandra Lozano called herself “The lawyer of miracles,” an effective marketing strategy that drew hundreds of anxious undocumented immigrants living in the shadows to her law office. “I fix cases that are supposedly impossible to win,” Lozano promised in a Facebook video. A phrase that now rings hollow.

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