Immigration court · Laredo, TX
Laredo Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 54.3 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Laredo's bench. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 26.1% (below the 48.3% national average). Judge lottery spans 54.3 pp on the same bench.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 26.1%
- Asylum grant rate
- 73.9%
- Asylum denial rate
- 833
- Pending cases
- 8 mo
- Time to decision
Laredo in one line
Laredo's asylum grant rate is 26.1% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 3,575 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 26.1%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 3,575
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -22.2 pp
- vs. national average
- 54.3 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Laredo Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 26.1% across 3,575 FY2015–2025 merits (22.2 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 7.6% to 61.9% (54.3 pp) across 23 reported judges at Laredo. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
833 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 8 months describe administrative pressure in this snapshot. Use the peer comparisons below to place this court against similar caseloads and grant-rate profiles, then consult the methodology for the extract's scope and limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
59/100
Laredo, weighted across 3 of 3 tracked dimensions
A weighted composite of asylum grant rate, time to decision, and backlog ratio against the full tracked-court corpus. It describes the historical docket, not the odds of any one case, and does not weigh legal representation, case type, or judge assignment.
- Asylum grant rate F 26.1%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision A 8 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio A- 0.8%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Laredo
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Laredo (26.1%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Laredo Immigration Court vs all courts by asylum merits caseload
Where this court's FY2015–2025 asylum merits-decision count sits among every tracked immigration court (inventory signal, not a quality ranking)
3,575 58th of 77 higher than 19 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Laredo sits: Fast but Tough
Each dot is one of the 41 largest immigration courts by merits decisions, split at the MEDIAN grant rate (47.5%) and median average wait (31.0 months) across this set. Laredo's own grant rate is 26.1% and its average wait is 7.7 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Laredo Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
3,575merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Laredo: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 15 | 0.0% |
| FY2016 | 19 | 15.8% |
| FY2017 | 86 | 33.7% |
| FY2018 | 146 | 21.2% |
| FY2019 | 174 | 12.1% |
| FY2020 | 1,123 | 26.8% |
| FY2021 | 544 | 51.5% |
| FY2022 | 150 | 34.0% |
| FY2023 | 223 | 17.5% |
| FY2024 | 402 | 20.1% |
| FY2025 | 693 | 14.1% |
The judge lottery at Laredo Immigration Court
23 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 61.9% (134 decisions) down to 7.6% (157 decisions) - a 54.3-point spread on the same bench. Rates based on smaller decision counts carry more statistical noise.
Judge names below are the anonymized judge codes EOIR assigns in its public case-data release, not verified public identities. EOIR does not publish immigration judges' full names in this dataset. See our methodology for detail.
| # | Judge | Decisions | Asylum grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judge DJS | 134 | |
| 2 | Judge CNM | 26 | |
| 3 | Judge CLG | 156 | |
| 4 | Judge MB | 108 | |
| 5 | Judge YG1 | 113 | |
| 6 | Judge EJT | 79 | |
| 7 | Judge CMM | 130 | |
| 8 | Judge MBT | 99 | |
| 9 | Judge DER | 126 | |
| 10 | Judge X10 | 82 | |
| 11 | Judge RSN | 202 | |
| 12 | Judge CAH | 114 | |
| 13 | Judge RLC | 289 | |
| 14 | Judge BLH | 116 | |
| 15 | Judge ELG | 153 | |
| 16 | Judge TGC | 169 | |
| 17 | Judge DYR | 37 | |
| 18 | Judge LCF | 337 | |
| 19 | Judge JCM | 106 | |
| 20 | Judge DLC | 148 | |
| 21 | Judge PNM | 77 | |
| 22 | Judge JA1 | 418 | |
| 23 | Judge CCS | 157 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Lower-third grant-rate peers for Laredo, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Omaha Immigration Court · Omaha, NE · 25.8% grant · 5,224 merits
- Indianapolis Immigration Court · Indianapolis, IN · 26.8% grant · 1,967 merits
- Tacoma Immigration Court · Tacoma, WA · 27.7% grant · 3,999 merits
- Elizabeth Immigration Court · Elizabeth, NJ · 24.1% grant · 5,586 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Otero Immigration Court · Chaparral, NM · 3,408 merits · 29.5% grant
- Eloy Immigration Court · Eloy, AZ · 3,884 merits · 32.0% grant
- Tucson Immigration Court · Tucson, AZ · 3,195 merits · 29.9% grant
- Imperial Immigration Court · Imperial, CA · 3,089 merits · 49.7% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Laredo (26.1%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Laredo's 3,575-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Immigration court outcomes by court and case type · 2025
Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Laredo Immigration Court's outcome and grant-rate figures are recomputed live from the EOIR case-level extract on every request, never hand-typed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.