Immigration judge · LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena)

Immigration Judge AWS

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: denial rate 91.7% is Judge AWS's most extreme outcome share in the corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 8.3% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 36 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

8.3%
Asylum grant rate
91.7%
Asylum denial rate
36
Asylum decisions

Judge AWS in one line

Judge AWS's asylum grant rate is 8.3% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 36 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

8.3%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
36
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-40.0 pp
vs. national average
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"AWS" 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 AWS's 91.7% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge AWS 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)

8.3% 1589th of 1696 higher than 107 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge AWS's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge AWS's 8.3% grant rate, a lower-third corpus rate, with THIN/LIGHT/FULL/HEAVY merits stamps on each peer row.

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

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JDP 8.3% same 84 THIN Stewart
CPH 8.3% same 36 THIN Oakdale
JTL 8.3% same 36 THIN Houston - Smith Street
KNH 8.4% +0.1 pp 155 LIGHT Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
XDD 8.2% -0.1 pp 49 THIN Port Isabel
TAH 8.5% +0.2 pp 129 LIGHT LaSalle

Same-bench poles at LaSalle

Same-bench spread at LaSalle: Judge AWS runs 8.3% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code AWS (8.3%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ AWS at LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena); asylum denial rate 91.7%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 36 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge AWS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum denial rate 91.7%, 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 AWS'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.