Immigration Courts Duped 100 Times by Disgraced Immigration Lawyer
By David North on October 19, 2022
Sometimes you have to read a government press release very carefully to get the whole story, particularly when the government has been hoodwinked.
The ICE press release headline sounds very positive: “HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] investigation results in arrest of 2 men for involvement in attorney impersonation scheme”.
What happened is a tale of highly successful deviousness set in motion by two San Antonio immigration lawyers that must have gone on for a couple of years before the feds stumbled on to it. The two lawyers are Jose Maria Guerrero, 68, and his slightly older colleague, Rodolfo Solis Zepada, 75. Guerrero had resigned from the practice of law in 2016 rather than face a disciplinary action — no details were offered on this in the release. Zepada was still an active member of the bar with, apparently, a plethora of clients, including many illegal aliens.
If Zepada had more than he could handle in immigration courts that sometimes allow lawyers to phone in their arguments, why not have Guerrero impersonate him over the phone? They worked out a deal to do just that and, according to the release, “HSI agents identified at least 100 different occasions” when it happened.
https://cis.org/North/Immigration-Courts-Duped-100-Times-Disgraced-Immigration-Lawyer
