Immigration judge · Harlingen Immigration Court
Immigration Judge PHE
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 83 merits decisions make Judge PHE a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 37.3% (below the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 37.3%
- Asylum grant rate
- 62.7%
- Asylum denial rate
- 83
- Asylum decisions
Judge PHE in one line
Judge PHE's asylum grant rate is 37.3% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 83 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 37.3%
- Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
- 83
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -11.0 pp
- vs. national average
"PHE" 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.
This judge's merits outcome mix
83merits decisions FY2015–2025
Judge PHE 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)
37.3% 922nd of 1696 higher than 774 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 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 61 | 15 | 46 | 24.6% |
| 2021 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 62.5% |
| 2022 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 100.0% |
IJ rate-band chamber
Anonymized codes nearest Judge PHE'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 37.3% (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 PHE are shown here.
Same-bench poles at Harlingen
Same-bench spread at Harlingen: Judge PHE runs 37.3% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.
Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload
Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.
Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge PHE at Harlingen Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Judge PHE's 83-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.
DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ PHE at Harlingen Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 83. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 83 decisions FY2015–2025.
Judge PHE's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 83, 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 PHE'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.