Immigration judge · Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court
Immigration Judge MGC
40.9% asylum grant rate across 430 merits decisions - below the 48.2% national average.
Data updated 2026-06-21
- 40.9%
- Asylum grant rate
- 59.1%
- Asylum denial rate
- 430
- Asylum decisions
"MGC" 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 MGC granted asylum in 40.9% of the 430 cases decided on the merits at the Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court - below the 48.2% national rate.
- 40.9%
- Asylum grant rate
- 59.1%
- Asylum denial rate
- 430
- Merits decisions, FY2015–2025
Case Insights: Judge MGC
Immigration Judge MGC decided 430 asylum cases on the merits at the Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court between FY2015 and FY2025. Of those, 176 were granted (40.9%) and 254 were denied (59.1%). That volume places Judge MGC among a lighter caseload at the Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court.
The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is -18.2 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as roughly balanced 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 Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge MGC's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for Houston - S. Gessner Road 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.
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