Graphical Highlights
 
Nationality and Court-by-Court Disparity in Asylum Decisions:
Examining the Middle Fifty Percent of Judges

Fiscal Years 2008 - 2010

 

        Denial Rates (%)
Nationality* Immigration Court Decisions Judges Low
(25th Percentile)
High
(75th Percentile)
Middle Range
China Los Angeles 854 12 26.7 55.3 28.6
  New York  9,110 27 13.6 45.2 31.5
  Newark  709 7 35.9 62.2 26.3
Colombia  Miami  541 7 45.1 70.8 25.6
  Orlando  742 5 46.5 82.3 35.8
El Salvador  Los Angeles  400 7 92.6 98.1 5.4
Ethiopia  Arlington  452 6 9.1 21.1 12.0
  Baltimore  357 5 19.1 35.0 15.9
Haiti  Miami  2,542 18 76.4 89.1 12.8
  Orlando  1,360 6 71.7 88.6 16.9
India  San Francisco  292 5 39.6 62.1 22.4
Iraq  San Diego  265 4 0.6 3.2 2.6
Venezuela  Miami  289 4 54.6 68.6 14.0
  Orlando  349 4 25.3 71.9 46.5
 
Average 21.2
Weighted Average 25.6
Median 19.7
Weighted Median 31.5

* To be included, a court had to have at least 4 judges who made 50 or more asylum decisions in each time period.


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