Immigration judge · Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained)

Immigration Judge PHE

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: denial rate 91.3% is Judge PHE's most extreme outcome share in the corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 8.7% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 92 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

8.7%
Asylum grant rate
91.3%
Asylum denial rate
92
Asylum decisions

Judge PHE in one line

Judge PHE's asylum grant rate is 8.7% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 92 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

8.7%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
92
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-39.6 pp
vs. national average
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"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.

Statistical data only. Judge PHE's 91.3% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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)

8.7% 1581st of 1696 higher than 115 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 PHE's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge PHE's 8.7% 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 PHE are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JHW 8.6% -0.1 pp 70 THIN Elizabeth
ATP 8.6% -0.1 pp 35 THIN LaSalle
DML 8.8% +0.1 pp 34 THIN LaSalle
TAH 8.5% -0.2 pp 129 LIGHT LaSalle
RPL 8.9% +0.2 pp 428 LIGHT Port Isabel
JAM 8.9% +0.2 pp 271 LIGHT LaSalle

Same-bench poles at Port Isabel

Same-bench spread at Port Isabel: Judge PHE runs 8.7% - 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.

  • IJ JS1 · Boston Immigration Court · 92 merits · 32.6% grant
  • IJ KFL · Harlingen Immigration Court · 92 merits · 35.9% grant
  • IJ LSY · Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained) · 92 merits · 37.0% grant
  • IJ CMN · San Francisco Immigration Court · 92 merits · 89.1% grant

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code PHE (8.7%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ PHE at Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained); asylum denial rate 91.3%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 92 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge PHE's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum denial rate 91.3%, 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.