Mexico Consulate partners with attorneys as Mexican nationals deal with legal fraud over immigration cases and more

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Mexico’s consulate in Albuquerque added three pro-bono attorneys to help Mexican nationals facing legal issues and avoid immigration fraud.

Head Consul of Mexico in Albuquerque, Patricia Pinzón, announced the partnership Thursday as the consulate warned that immigration is the top area where people seeking legal help face abuse.

“Every day there is fraud and with fraud I mean, just, taking a case when you know there’s no case and having Mexican nationals pay thousands of dollars for cases where there is no case,” Pinzón said.

Pinzón said some attorneys also set cases back by giving people bad advice. She gave one example when KOB 4 asked what that looked like. She pointed to people being advised to sign departure paperwork while being told they could then be helped by the attorneys to come back.

“Signing any kind of departure has other consequences,” Pinzón said. “Sometimes it takes years to fix, sometimes you need a pardon, sometimes it has no fixture.”

Attorney Horatio Moreno Campos is one of the three attorneys in the partnership. He gave KOB 4 an example involving a legal immigration green card hearing notice.

“It was doctored, plus not only that, they held hearings by video with someone who was holding themselves out to be a federal officer,” Moreno Campos said. “So that level of sophistication where someone who has no knowledge about any of the systems, they were easily preyed upon.”

He says that victim lost $15,000.

The new attorneys will take an initial look at cases to determine if a case exists before people will move onto next steps.

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