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| Nationality and Court-by-Court Disparity in Asylum Decisions: Examining the Extremes Fiscal Years 2008 - 2010 |
| Denial Rates (%) | ||||||
| Nationality* | Immigration Court | Decisions | Judges | Lowest | Highest | Range |
| China | Los Angeles |
854 | 12 | 16.7 | 74.4 | 57.7 |
New York |
9,110 | 27 | 4.0 | 73.9 | 69.9 | |
Newark |
709 | 7 | 35.7 | 69.9 | 34.2 | |
| Colombia | Miami |
541 | 7 | 40.2 | 88.2 | 48.0 |
Orlando |
742 | 5 | 41.2 | 88.1 | 46.9 | |
| El Salvador | Los Angeles |
400 | 7 | 90.2 | 98.1 | 7.9 |
| Ethiopia | Arlington |
452 | 6 | 6.0 | 40.0 | 34.0 |
Baltimore |
357 | 5 | 17.4 | 44.4 | 27.1 | |
| Haiti | Miami |
2,542 | 18 | 51.6 | 97.1 | 45.6 |
Orlando |
1,360 | 6 | 60.8 | 93.2 | 32.4 | |
| India | San Francisco |
292 | 5 | 38.3 | 62.1 | 23.8 |
| Iraq | San Diego |
265 | 4 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Venezuela | Miami |
289 | 4 | 48.1 | 72.2 | 24.1 |
Orlando |
349 | 4 | 24.4 | 80.3 | 55.9 | |
| Average | 36.5 | |||||
| Weighted Average | 54.4 | |||||
| Median | 34.1 | |||||
| Weighted Median | 57.7 | |||||
* To be included, a court had to have at least 4 judges who made 50 or more asylum decisions in each time period. |
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