Immigration judge · Oakdale Immigration Court

Immigration Judge ABE

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 82 merits decisions make Judge ABE a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 37.8% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

37.8%
Asylum grant rate
62.2%
Asylum denial rate
82
Asylum decisions

Judge ABE in one line

Judge ABE's asylum grant rate is 37.8% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 82 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

37.8%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
82
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-10.5 pp
vs. national average
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"ABE" is the anonymized judge code DOJ's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) assigns in its public case-data release, not a verified public identity. EOIR does not publish immigration judges' full names in this dataset, so this code should not be read as confirming, or attributing these statistics to, any specific named individual. See our methodology for detail.

Statistical data only. Judge ABE's 62.2% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge ABE vs all tracked IJs by asylum grant rate

Where this judge's FY2015–2025 asylum grant rate sits among every tracked immigration judge (a leniency measure, not a quality ranking)

37.8% 913th of 1696 higher than 783 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Year-by-Year Outcomes

Historical asylum merits decisions for this anonymized EOIR judge code. Annual rows can be thin, and are not a forecast of any future case.

FY Decisions Grants Denials Grant %
2019 37 15 22 40.5%
2020 45 16 29 35.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge ABE's grant rate

EOIR publishes immigration judges as three-letter codes, not names. This chamber lists nationwide IJs whose asylum grant rate is closest to 37.8% (ABS gap), with a merits-volume stamp so volume is visible without a second identical card grid.

1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge ABE are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
RBM 37.8% same 2,699 HEAVY Seattle
SFK 37.8% same 1,035 FULL Orlando
TLF 37.8% same 828 FULL Tacoma
MNN 37.8% same 489 LIGHT Miami
JSL 37.7% -0.1 pp 1,620 FULL Kansas City
IEB 37.7% -0.1 pp 589 FULL Los Angeles - West

Same-bench poles at Oakdale

Same-bench spread at Oakdale: Judge ABE runs 37.8% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.

  • IJ X10 · Laredo Immigration Court · 82 merits · 34.1% grant
  • IJ CTN · Conroe Immigration Court · 82 merits · 9.8% grant
  • IJ PHE · Harlingen Immigration Court · 83 merits · 37.3% grant
  • IJ DST · El Paso Immigration Court · 83 merits · 42.2% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge ABE at Oakdale Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ ABE at Oakdale Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 82. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 82 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge ABE's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 82, not hand-typed editorial values. justice.gov/eoir/foia-library-0

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Judge ABE's grant/denial/merits 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.