Immigration Judges Asylum Grants & Denials: Fiscal Years 2018-2019

Bryan Johnson of Amoachi & Johnson, Attorneys at Law, PLLC, a New York immigration law firm, posted some information on immigration court asylum grants and denials.  It includes asylum  grant/denial information for immigation judges from across the country.  Here is part of the introductory comments to the data:

“After over 7 months, [Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)] finally provided the Immigration Judges’ asylum grants and denials for FY 2018 and FY 2019, respectively.

To see the same statistics from FY 2014 to FY 2017, see this previous post. (which took less than 1 month for responsive records)

Of note is the asylum grants and denials for the 6 Immigration Judges who AG William Barr hand-picked for the Board of Immigration Appeals in 2019:

2 of the 6 new BIA members–Hunsucker and Cassidy–denied all their asylum cases in FY 2019.

All 6 of the new BIA members had asylum grant rates of below 10% in FY 2019.” (bold added).

KJ