Judges → Santa Ana Immigration Court

Immigration judge · Santa Ana Immigration Court

Immigration Judge JER

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,017 merits decisions place Judge JER among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,017 decisions FY2015–2025 (#184 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

31.1%
Asylum grant rate
68.9%
Asylum denial rate
1,017
Asylum decisions

Judge JER in one line

Judge JER's asylum grant rate is 31.1% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,017 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

31.1%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
1,017
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-17.2 pp
vs. national average
View watchlist

"JER" 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 JER's 68.9% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge JER 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)

31.1% 1080th of 1696 higher than 616 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more judges. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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 %
2022 65 36 29 55.4%
2023 151 72 79 47.7%
2024 228 107 121 46.9%
2025 573 101 472 17.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JER'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 31.1% (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 JER are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JEL 31.1% same 453 LIGHT Hyattsville
JOC 31.1% same 61 THIN LaSalle
IEG 31.1% same 45 THIN Otero
EJT 31.2% +0.1 pp 202 LIGHT Pearsall
JN 31.2% +0.1 pp 48 THIN Port Isabel
PSL 31.2% +0.1 pp 32 THIN Otay Mesa

Same-bench poles at Santa Ana

Same-bench spread at Santa Ana: Judge JER runs 31.1% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ VAL
83.3%
162 merits
Bench low
IJ CDM
31.9%
514 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 TNN · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 1,016 merits · 10.6% grant
  • IJ KAW · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 1,014 merits · 32.1% grant
  • IJ MIN · Portland Immigration Court (Detained) · 1,013 merits · 43.3% grant
  • IJ KED · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,021 merits · 71.5% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code JER: 1,017 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge JER's 1,017-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JER at Santa Ana Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,017. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,017 decisions FY2015–2025 (#184 of 1.7K).

Judge JER's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,017, 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 JER'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.