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Immigration Judge JTL

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: denial rate 89.7% is Judge JTL's most extreme outcome share in the corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 10.3% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 39 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

10.3%
Asylum grant rate
89.7%
Asylum denial rate
39
Asylum decisions

Judge JTL in one line

Judge JTL's asylum grant rate is 10.3% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 39 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

10.3%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
39
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-38.0 pp
vs. national average
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"JTL" 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 JTL's 89.7% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge JTL 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)

10.3% 1554th of 1696 higher than 142 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 JTL's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge JTL's 10.3% 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 JTL are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
RBM 10.3% same 97 THIN San Diego
RCH 10.3% same 87 THIN Elizabeth
PNM 10.4% +0.1 pp 77 THIN Laredo
JBE 10.2% -0.1 pp 187 LIGHT Oakdale
AO 10.5% +0.2 pp 362 LIGHT Miami - Krome
BLH 10.5% +0.2 pp 38 THIN Oakdale

Same-bench poles at Port Isabel

Same-bench spread at Port Isabel: Judge JTL runs 10.3% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ MIO
21.9%
32 merits
Bench low
IJ NAM
6.1%
33 merits

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code JTL (10.3%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge JTL's 39-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JTL at Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained); asylum denial rate 89.7%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 39 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge JTL's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum denial rate 89.7%, 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 JTL'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.