Immigration judge · Tucson Immigration Court

Immigration Judge KLD

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge KLD's EOIR row. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 490 decisions FY2015–2025 (#552 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

37.1%
Asylum grant rate
62.9%
Asylum denial rate
490
Asylum decisions

Judge KLD in one line

Judge KLD's asylum grant rate is 37.1% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 490 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

37.1%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
490
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-11.2 pp
vs. national average
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"KLD" 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 KLD's 62.9% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge KLD 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)

37.1% 927th of 1696 higher than 769 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 1 0 1 0.0%
2017 1 0 1 0.0%
2020 1 0 1 0.0%
2021 13 9 4 69.2%
2022 41 21 20 51.2%
2023 68 22 46 32.4%
2024 101 46 55 45.5%
2025 264 84 180 31.8%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge KLD'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 37.1% (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 KLD are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JMF 37.1% same 840 FULL Boston
LOC 37.1% same 547 FULL San Diego
DKJ 37.1% same 89 THIN Baltimore
ATP 37.2% +0.1 pp 682 FULL Houston - Greenspoint Park
MIA 37.0% -0.1 pp 108 LIGHT Philadelphia
LSY 37.0% -0.1 pp 92 THIN Chelmsford

Same-bench poles at Tucson

Same-bench spread at Tucson: Judge KLD runs 37.1% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 MNN · Miami Immigration Court · 489 merits · 37.8% grant
  • IJ NNA · Salt Lake City Immigration Court · 488 merits · 63.1% grant
  • IJ ELT · Chicago Immigration Court · 488 merits · 70.3% grant
  • IJ SME · Dallas Immigration Court · 487 merits · 55.0% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code KLD: 490 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ KLD at Tucson Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 490 decisions FY2015–2025 (#552 of 1.7K).

Judge KLD's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - lead-nationality share n/a, 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 KLD'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.