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Immigration Judge ENA

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge ENA's 65.1% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 65.1% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

65.1%
Asylum grant rate
34.9%
Asylum denial rate
341
Asylum decisions

Judge ENA in one line

Judge ENA's asylum grant rate is 65.1% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 341 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

65.1%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
341
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+16.8 pp
vs. national average
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"ENA" 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 ENA's 65.1% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge ENA 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)

65.1% 281st of 1696 higher than 1,415 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 %
2023 41 21 20 51.2%
2024 95 75 20 78.9%
2025 205 126 79 61.5%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge ENA's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge ENA's 65.1% 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 ENA are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
YG1 65.1% same 1,222 FULL San Antonio
KLH 65.1% same 665 FULL Fort Snelling
BAB 65.2% +0.1 pp 1,223 FULL Denver
EGL 65.2% +0.1 pp 560 FULL Chicago
GRH 65.2% +0.1 pp 46 THIN Dallas
MGK 64.9% -0.2 pp 833 FULL New York - Varick Street

Same-bench poles at Sterling

Same-bench spread at Sterling: Judge ENA runs 65.1% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Immigration judges at other courts with a comparable merits-decision volume, distinct from same-bench grant-rate peers above.

  • IJ RHM · Hyattsville Immigration Court · 341 merits · 46.9% grant
  • IJ JPK · Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court · 340 merits · 86.5% grant
  • IJ SGA · Miami - Krome Immigration Court · 339 merits · 13.3% grant
  • IJ BHL · LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · 339 merits · 5.0% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ ENA at Sterling Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 65.1%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 341 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge ENA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 65.1%, 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 ENA'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.