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Jena, LA Immigration Court

19 judges · LA

3.9%
Court Approval Rate
1,816
Granted
44,483
Denied
19
Judges

The Jena, LA Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 3.9% across 46,299 decided cases. The court has 19 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).

How to Interpret This Court's Data

The Jena, LA Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 3.9% 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 Reese, Agnelis L. (29,858 total cases), Clemente, Jesus (5,353 total cases), and Robbins, Kandra K. (4,034 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Mexico (4,530 decided, 2.3% grant rate), Guatemala (2,890 decided, 1.5% grant rate), and Honduras (2,475 decided, 2.3% 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 2026-07-01. The data is informational and should not be treated as legal advice or a prediction for any individual case.

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Areas Served by This Court

Based on the official EOIR ZIP-code assignment, the Jena, LA Immigration Court is the assigned filing location for 249 ZIP codes. Main cities by state:

LA — Sulphur, Abbeville, Abita Springs, Addis, Albany, Amelia, Amite, Anacoco, Arcadia, Baker, Baldwin, Ball, Barksdale Afb, Batchelor, Bell City and 145 more cities

MS — Moss Point, Pascagoula, Vicksburg, Bay Saint Louis, Bay Springs, Beaumont, Bogue Chitto, Bolton, Braxton, Brookhaven, Brooklyn, Buckatunna, Byram, Carriere, Carthage and 70 more cities

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Judges at This Court

JudgeApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Reese, Agnelis L. 1.2% 323 26,873 27,196
Clemente, Jesus 9.7% 331 3,074 3,405
Robbins, Kandra K. 5.4% 153 2,658 2,811
Hasbrouck, Tanya 6.3% 41 605 646
Crooks, Grady A 3.6% 16 428 444
Mitchell, Kyle V. 14.1% 24 146 170
Green, David 10.8% 22 182 204
Ratliff, Robert A. 4.4% 9 194 203
Holden, James R. 2.8% 6 207 213
Lasalle Detail Judge 4 2.8% 3 106 109
Lasalle Detail Judge 1 9.7% 10 93 103
Lasalle Detail Judge 5 2.8% 3 106 109
Kasam, Nadeem 4.5% 3 63 66
Lasalle Detail Judge 2 2.8% 3 103 106
Lasalle Detail Judge 3 4.6% 4 83 87
Brown, Denise G. 30.4% 7 16 23
Downend, Larry W. 0.0% 0 3 3
Patterson, Courtenay 0.0% 0 0 0
LaBrosse, Melynda L. 0.0% 0 0 0

Approval Rate by Nationality

NationalityApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Mexico 2.3% 103 4,427 4,530
Guatemala 1.5% 43 2,847 2,890
Honduras 2.3% 57 2,418 2,475
Venezuela 8.2% 71 798 869
Cuba 18.9% 155 667 822
Nicaragua 6.6% 41 582 623
El Salvador 7.2% 37 476 513
China 10.9% 50 409 459
India 2.4% 11 441 452
Colombia 3.4% 14 397 411
Cameroon 45.7% 181 215 396
Russia 48.5% 163 173 336
Ecuador 2.1% 7 322 329
Uzbekistan 9.0% 18 181 199
Turkey 10.2% 20 176 196
Nepal 3.6% 6 161 167
Georgia 33.1% 54 109 163
Brazil 1.4% 2 142 144
Bangladesh 9.8% 14 129 143
Dominican Republic 7.7% 11 131 142
Afghanistan 46.3% 62 72 134
Jamaica 11.4% 15 117 132
Haiti 4.7% 6 121 127
Ethiopia 31.8% 34 73 107
Peru 4.7% 5 101 106
Vietnam 13.5% 14 90 104
Egypt 15.8% 15 80 95
Iran 37.9% 33 54 87
Armenia 14.7% 11 64 75
Mauritania 6.9% 5 67 72
Somalia 22.5% 16 55 71
Pakistan 13.4% 9 58 67
Eritrea 42.4% 28 38 66
Tajikistan (Tadzhik) 25.0% 15 45 60
Jordan 6.8% 4 55 59
Sri Lanka 18.9% 10 43 53
Romania 0.0% 0 51 51
Ghana 23.4% 11 36 47
Senegal 5.0% 2 38 40
Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) 15.0% 6 34 40
Nigeria 15.4% 6 33 39
Morocco 0.0% 0 35 35
Sudan 45.2% 14 17 31
Guinea 27.3% 6 16 22
Kazakhstan 0.0% 0 21 21
Bolivia 10.0% 2 18 20
Bahamas 0.0% 0 20 20
Togo 6.2% 1 15 16
Belize 6.7% 1 14 15
Yemen 13.3% 2 13 15
Gambia 20.0% 3 12 15
Costa Rica 0.0% 0 14 14
Angola 14.3% 2 12 14
Unknown Nationality 0.0% 0 11 11
Burkina Faso 0.0% 0 10 10
The Republic Of The Marshall Islands 0.0% 0 9 9
Democratic Republic Of Congo 55.6% 5 4 9
Equatorial Guinea 11.1% 1 8 9
Syria 0.0% 0 9 9
Mali 0.0% 0 8 8
Indonesia 0.0% 0 7 7
Azerbaijan 14.3% 1 6 7
Congo 0.0% 0 7 7
Laos 16.7% 1 5 6
Ukraine 16.7% 1 5 6
Guadeloupe 0.0% 0 5 5
Kenya 0.0% 0 5 5
Kosovo 0.0% 0 5 5
Panama 20.0% 1 4 5
United Kingdom 0.0% 0 5 5
Uganda 50.0% 2 2 4
Albania 25.0% 1 3 4
Moldavia (Moldova) 50.0% 2 2 4
South Africa 0.0% 0 4 4
Sierra Leone 50.0% 2 2 4
Stateless - Alien Unable To Name A Country 50.0% 2 2 4
Trinidad And Tobago 0.0% 0 2 2
Argentina 0.0% 0 2 2
Chile 0.0% 0 1 1

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