Immigration judge · El Paso Immigration Court

Immigration Judge RCJ

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 RCJ's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 33.1% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

33.1%
Asylum grant rate
66.9%
Asylum denial rate
142
Asylum decisions

Judge RCJ in one line

Judge RCJ's asylum grant rate is 33.1% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 142 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

33.1%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
142
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
-15.2 pp
vs. national average
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"RCJ" 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 RCJ's 66.9% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge RCJ 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)

33.1% 1034th of 1696 higher than 662 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 120 42 78 35.0%
2021 5 2 3 40.0%
2022 17 3 14 17.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge RCJ'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 33.1% (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 RCJ are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
EAC 33.1% same 703 FULL Phoenix
DER 33.1% same 175 LIGHT Dallas
LTB 33.0% -0.1 pp 1,202 FULL Miami
DDE 33.0% -0.1 pp 1,081 FULL Seattle
DJJ 33.0% -0.1 pp 476 LIGHT Portland
LAF 33.2% +0.1 pp 355 LIGHT Elizabeth

Same-bench poles at El Paso

Same-bench spread at El Paso: Judge RCJ runs 33.1% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Immigration judges at other courts with a comparable merits-decision volume, distinct from same-bench grant-rate peers above.

  • IJ JBR · Buffalo Immigration Court · 142 merits · 21.8% grant
  • IJ CB1 · Santa Ana Immigration Court · 142 merits · 47.2% grant
  • IJ KHS · Dallas Immigration Court · 142 merits · 12.0% grant
  • IJ VAL · Florence Immigration Court · 143 merits · 30.8% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge RCJ at El Paso Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ RCJ at El Paso Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 142 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge RCJ'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 RCJ'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.