Graphical Highlights
 
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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