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Court-by-Court Disparity in Asylum Decisions: Examining the Extremes Before and After the Attorney General's Directive |
| Range | Change in Range** | Immigration Court* | Decisions | Judges | FY 2004-2006 | FY 2008-2010 | Current | Last Year's Report |
| New York | 37,999 | 31 | 80.9 | 63.7 | -17.2 | -19.6 |
| Miami | 24,268 | 30 | 73.3 | 28.2 | -45.1 | -48.1 |
| Los Angeles | 13,932 | 35 | 53.8 | 47.2 | -6.6 | -6.5 |
| San Francisco | 10,188 | 24 | 57.9 | 60.1 | 2.2 | -12.5 |
| Orlando | 6,549 | 9 | 43.0 | 33.1 | -9.9 | 10.2 |
| Baltimore | 5,002 | 6 | 26.2 | 25.1 | -1.1 | -8.5 |
| Newark | 4,274 | 10 | 46.3 | 32.2 | -14.1 | -23.3 |
| Boston | 3,690 | 8 | 32.6 | 11.5 | -21.1 | -19.9 |
| Arlington | 3,021 | 9 | 42.3 | 38.9 | -3.4 | -5.9 |
| Chicago | 2,900 | 7 | 61.7 | 38.7 | -23.0 | -19.3 |
| San Diego | 2,479 | 9 | 45.3 | 33.2 | -12.1 | -8 |
| Houston | 1,880 | 7 | 15.3 | 32.8 | 17.5 | 9.4 |
| Cleveland | 1,696 | 12 | 49.2 | 49.8 | 0.6 | 13.6 |
| Average | -10.3 | -10.6 | ||||
| Weighted Average | -17.8 | -20.3 | ||||
| Median | -9.9 | -8.5 | ||||
| Weighted Median | -17.2 | -19.6 | ||||
* To be included, a court had to have at least 4 judges who made 75 or more asylum decisions in each time period. The judges did not have to be the same in each time period. ** Calculated as the difference between the before and after judge-by-judge denial rate ranges. Last year's report looked at the FY 2007 - FY 2009 "after" time period while this year's report examined the FY 2008 - FY 2010 "after" time period. |
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