| Asylum Decisions Vary Widely Across Judges and Courts - Latest Results |
| (13 Jan 2020)
TRAC's judge-by-judge asylum decision reports are now updated through FY 2019. These reports examine 179,848 asylum decisions across 59 immigration courts.
A total of 456 individual reports are available on Immigration Judges who made at least 100 decisions from FY 2014 to FY 2019.
To visualize this unique data in an easy-to-understand format, TRAC created an infographic which shows court denial rates, judge denial rates, and sizes of caseload for all judges included in the reports. This depicts the extent to which asylum decisions vary widely across judges and courts. This graphic is available in the report and also as a downloadable PDF file. The geographic distribution of asylum cases across immigration courts is highly uneven. Just five immigration courts - New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and Miami - decided half of all asylum cases. Although just over 60 percent of all asylum applications were denied in this period, slightly less than half of applications - just 49 percent - in the top five courts were denied. This is mostly due to the balancing effect of comparably low denial rates in New York (26%) and San Francisco (30%) in contrast to much higher denial rates in Houston (92%) and Miami (86%) and a more moderate denial rate in Los Angeles (71%). Twelve immigration courts accumulated denial rates above 90%. Atlanta denied over 97 percent of over 2,000 asylum applications, Las Vegas denied 93 percent of its 2,000 applications, and Conroe denied 92 percent of just over 850 applications. In contrast, only seven immigration courts deny less than 50 percent of cases: Newark (49%), Phoenix (48%), Chicago (47%), Boston (42%), Honolulu (31%), San Francisco (30%), and New York (26%). View the entire report at: https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/590/ For the individual judge-by-judge reports go to: https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/judgereports/ Additional free web query tools which track immigration court proceedings have also been updated through November 2019. For an index to the full list of TRAC's immigration tools and their latest update go to: https://trac.syr.edu/imm/tools/ If you want to be sure to receive notifications whenever updated data become available, sign up at: https://tracfed.syr.edu/cgi-bin/tracuser.pl?pub=1&list=imm Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tracreports or like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/tracreports TRAC is self-supporting and depends on foundation grants, individual contributions and subscription fees for the funding needed to obtain, analyze and publish the data we collect on the activities of the US Federal government. To help support TRAC's ongoing efforts, go to: https://trac.syr.edu/cgi-bin/sponsor/sponsor.pl |
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