16 judges · TX
The Harlingen, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 0.3% across 26,536 decided cases. The court has 16 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Harlingen, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 0.3% in the current AsylumTracker dataset. Court-level statistics aggregate judges and cases assigned to that court, so the court average can differ sharply from any one judge's profile.
High-volume judge profiles at this court include Ayala, David (50,561 total cases), Burkhart, Margaret D. (26,240 total cases), and Zlatow, Jeffrey (24,364 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Honduras (9,264 decided, 0.2% grant rate), Mexico (3,848 decided, 10.5% grant rate), and Guatemala (3,417 decided, 0.1% grant rate).
Asylum grant rate is calculated as granted / (granted + denied). Procedural outcomes are separated so users can distinguish merits decisions from docket-management outcomes.
This page uses public EOIR records last updated 2026-05-08. The data is informational and should not be treated as legal advice or a prediction for any individual case.
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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayala, David | 6.6% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Burkhart, Margaret D. | 22.4% | 307 | 1,062 | 1,369 |
| Zlatow, Jeffrey | 6.4% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chapman, Kevin Jerome. | 6.9% | 119 | 1,597 | 1,716 |
| Gonzalez, Delia I. | 3.6% | 167 | 4,475 | 4,642 |
| Leonard, Joseph T. | 2.4% | 107 | 4,384 | 4,491 |
| Castaneda, Julian | 1.3% | 59 | 4,326 | 4,385 |
| Brooks, Mark K. | 7.0% | 201 | 2,658 | 2,859 |
| Garcia, Melissa Joy | 3.8% | 52 | 1,319 | 1,371 |
| Freeman, D'Anna H. | 9.0% | 117 | 1,180 | 1,297 |
| Pineda, Christopher | 0.7% | 13 | 1,848 | 1,861 |
| Gilbert, Daniel B. | 5.0% | 17 | 323 | 340 |
| Singh, Rantideva | 1.2% | 4 | 343 | 347 |
| Ayala, David (Visiting Judge) | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Burman, Lawrence R. | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Louisville Visiting Judge 3 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honduras | 0.2% | 18 | 9,246 | 9,264 |
| Mexico | 10.5% | 405 | 3,443 | 3,848 |
| Guatemala | 0.1% | 5 | 3,412 | 3,417 |
| Nicaragua | 2.5% | 77 | 2,977 | 3,054 |
| El Salvador | 0.3% | 9 | 2,811 | 2,820 |
| Cuba | 9.3% | 117 | 1,141 | 1,258 |
| Ecuador | 0.0% | 0 | 1,153 | 1,153 |
| Venezuela | 18.0% | 128 | 582 | 710 |
| Colombia | 1.2% | 5 | 421 | 426 |
| Dominican Republic | 0.0% | 0 | 266 | 266 |
| Peru | 0.6% | 1 | 179 | 180 |
| Sri Lanka | 2.6% | 1 | 38 | 39 |
| Brazil | 5.6% | 1 | 17 | 18 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 0.0% | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| Romania | 0.0% | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| Haiti | 0.0% | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| Eritrea | 100.0% | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Stateless - Alien Unable To Name A Country | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Angola | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| China | 40.0% | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Guadeloupe | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Cameroon | 40.0% | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Belize | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Costa Rica | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| India | 0.0% | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Russia | 0.0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |