Immigration judge · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court
Immigration Judge JSM
19.7% asylum grant rate across 315 merits decisions - below the 48.2% national average.
Data updated 2026-06-21
- 19.7%
- Asylum grant rate
- 80.3%
- Asylum denial rate
- 315
- Asylum decisions
"JSM" 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.
The verdict
Judge JSM granted asylum in 19.7% of the 315 cases decided on the merits at the Los Angeles - West Immigration Court - below the 48.2% national rate.
- 19.7%
- Asylum grant rate
- 80.3%
- Asylum denial rate
- 315
- Merits decisions, FY2015–2025
Case Insights: Judge JSM
Immigration Judge JSM decided 315 asylum cases on the merits at the Los Angeles - West Immigration Court between FY2015 and FY2025. Of those, 62 were granted (19.7%) and 253 were denied (80.3%). That volume places Judge JSM among a lighter caseload at the Los Angeles - West Immigration Court.
The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is -60.6 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as heavily denial-leaning relative to national EOIR norms. Because every case before an immigration judge depends on nationality, relief type, representation status, and country conditions, these aggregate rates are not a predictor of any single future decision. TRAC Immigration and DOJ EOIR both caution readers to interpret judge-level rates as descriptive rather than prescriptive statistics.
The Los Angeles - West Immigration Court itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge JSM's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for Los Angeles - West Immigration Court lists all sitting judges and their asylum grant rates, making side-by-side comparison of decision volumes and grant percentages straightforward for researchers, attorneys, and respondents.
Judges With a Similar Grant Rate
These are the immigration judges nationwide whose asylum grant rate is closest to Judge JSM's 19.7%, regardless of court.
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