Immigration judge · El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court

Immigration Judge RCJ

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: denial rate 86.0% is Judge RCJ's most extreme outcome share in the corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 14.0% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 50 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

14.0%
Asylum grant rate
86.0%
Asylum denial rate
50
Asylum decisions

Judge RCJ in one line

Judge RCJ's asylum grant rate is 14.0% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 50 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

14.0%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
50
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-34.3 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 86.0% 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)

14% 1489th of 1696 higher than 207 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 %
2021 3 0 3 0.0%
2022 2 0 2 0.0%
2023 22 7 15 31.8%
2024 22 0 22 0.0%
2025 1 0 1 0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge RCJ's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge RCJ's 14.0% 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 RCJ are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
SHA 14.0% same 285 LIGHT Stewart
RML 14.0% same 171 LIGHT Charlotte
JDV 14.0% same 43 THIN Imperial
MIO 13.9% -0.1 pp 706 FULL Port Isabel
PMT 14.1% +0.1 pp 249 LIGHT Portland
DL 13.9% -0.1 pp 115 LIGHT Miami - Krome

Same-bench poles at El Paso Service Processing Center

Same-bench spread at El Paso Service Processing Center: Judge RCJ runs 14.0% - 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 SMR · Otero Immigration Court · 50 merits · 16.0% grant
  • IJ BLH · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 50 merits · 10.0% grant
  • IJ DHS · Port Isabel Immigration Court · 50 merits · 18.0% grant
  • IJ JPI · LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · 50 merits · 10.0% grant

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code RCJ (14.0%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ RCJ at El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court; asylum denial rate 86.0%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 50 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge RCJ's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum denial rate 86.0%, 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.