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Immigration Judge CES

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,585 merits decisions place Judge CES among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,585 decisions FY2015–2025 (#73 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

64.2%
Asylum grant rate
35.8%
Asylum denial rate
1,585
Asylum decisions

Judge CES in one line

Judge CES's asylum grant rate is 64.2% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,585 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

64.2%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
1,585
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+15.9 pp
vs. national average
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"CES" 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 CES's 64.2% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge CES 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)

64.2% 291st of 1696 higher than 1,405 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 %
2015 83 42 41 50.6%
2016 101 76 25 75.2%
2017 152 114 38 75.0%
2018 211 139 72 65.9%
2019 245 168 77 68.6%
2020 89 39 50 43.8%
2021 70 34 36 48.6%
2022 104 78 26 75.0%
2023 105 78 27 74.3%
2024 134 89 45 66.4%
2025 291 160 131 55.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge CES's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge CES's 64.2% grant rate, an upper-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 CES are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
DCA 64.2% same 2,350 HEAVY Salt Lake City
MEC 64.1% -0.1 pp 78 THIN Salt Lake City
AHO 64.0% -0.2 pp 408 LIGHT Los Angeles - West
BC2 64.0% -0.2 pp 86 THIN Harlingen
LML 64.5% +0.3 pp 121 LIGHT Annandale
LTF 63.9% -0.3 pp 377 LIGHT Philadelphia

Same-bench poles at Los Angeles - West

Same-bench spread at Los Angeles - West: Judge CES runs 64.2% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ GA
77.2%
646 merits
Bench low
IJ JLR
6.9%
29 merits

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other courts' busiest IJ codes by merits volume, a caseload peer set orthogonal to the ABS(grant-rate) chamber above.

  • IJ ARK · Denver Immigration Court · 1,587 merits · 59.2% grant
  • IJ CYG · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,581 merits · 71.5% grant
  • IJ JBC · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,591 merits · 56.1% grant
  • IJ EM2 · New Orleans Immigration Court · 1,599 merits · 43.2% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code CES: 1,585 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge CES's 1,585-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ CES at Los Angeles - West Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,585. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,585 decisions FY2015–2025 (#73 of 1.7K).

Judge CES's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,585, 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 CES'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.