Immigration judge · Pearsall Immigration Court

Immigration Judge RRM

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: denial rate 81.9% is Judge RRM's most extreme outcome share in the corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 709 decisions FY2015–2025 (#353 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

18.1%
Asylum grant rate
81.9%
Asylum denial rate
709
Asylum decisions

Judge RRM in one line

Judge RRM's asylum grant rate is 18.1% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 709 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

18.1%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
709
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-30.2 pp
vs. national average
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"RRM" 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 RRM's 81.9% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge RRM 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)

18.1% 1411th of 1696 higher than 285 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 %
2015 1 0 1 0.0%
2016 39 7 32 17.9%
2017 69 9 60 13.0%
2018 108 23 85 21.3%
2019 77 20 57 26.0%
2020 114 15 99 13.2%
2021 47 18 29 38.3%
2022 62 15 47 24.2%
2023 70 8 62 11.4%
2024 60 11 49 18.3%
2025 62 2 60 3.2%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge RRM's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge RRM's 18.1% 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 RRM are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
MEG 18.1% same 182 LIGHT LaSalle
JLM 18.1% same 83 THIN New York - Broadway
MJJ 18.2% +0.1 pp 980 FULL Detroit
AAJ 18.2% +0.1 pp 614 FULL Houston - S. Gessner Road
MP1 18.2% +0.1 pp 308 LIGHT El Paso Service Processing Center
FMT 18.2% +0.1 pp 55 THIN Florence

Same-bench poles at Pearsall

Same-bench spread at Pearsall: Judge RRM runs 18.1% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other courts' busiest IJ codes by merits volume, a caseload peer set orthogonal to the ABS(grant-rate) chamber above.

  • IJ JND · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 710 merits · 14.6% grant
  • IJ JDL · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 710 merits · 45.6% grant
  • IJ ODS · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 707 merits · 29.4% grant
  • IJ JMP · Concord Immigration Court · 711 merits · 89.9% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code RRM: 709 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ RRM at Pearsall Immigration Court; asylum denial rate 81.9%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 709 decisions FY2015–2025 (#353 of 1.7K).

Judge RRM's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum denial rate 81.9%, 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 RRM'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.