Immigration Judge at Baton Rouge, LA
Judge Carey R. Holliday serves at the Baton Rouge, LA Immigration Court. With an asylum approval rate of 15.3%, this judge is below average compared to the national average. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
In April 2026, Carey Holliday was publicly scrutinized in news coverage of new immigration-judge hires for his prior Miami immigration-judge record, including an appeals-court finding that he relied on stereotypes in an asylum denial.
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Carey R. Holliday is listed with the Baton Rouge, LA Immigration Court. The headline asylum grant rate shown here is 15.3% based on granted and denied asylum decisions represented in the current dataset.
Among the largest nationality groups shown for this judge, the table highlights Honduras (348 decided, 0.0% grant rate), Mexico (192 decided, 0.5% grant rate), and Guatemala (120 decided, 0.0% grant rate). Compare these rows with the judge's overall rate because nationality mix can materially change how the headline number should be read.
Grant rate is calculated as granted / (granted + denied). Other procedural outcomes, including terminated, withdrawn, administratively closed, or removed cases, are tracked separately where available and are not treated as asylum grants.
This page is based on public EOIR data last updated 2026-07-01. It is for research and information only, not legal advice.
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| Nationality | Cases | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| Honduras | 348 | 0.0% |
| Mexico | 192 | 0.5% |
| Guatemala | 120 | 0.0% |
| Nicaragua | 38 | 0.0% |
| Venezuela | 28 | 3.6% |
| El Salvador | 23 | 4.3% |
| Colombia | 15 | 0.0% |
| Ecuador | 9 | 0.0% |
| Year | Cases | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 836 | 0.6% |
Judge Carey R. Holliday's asylum approval rate is 15.3% according to EOIR FOIA data.
The dataset lists 2,621 total asylum cases for Judge Carey R. Holliday.
The approval rate is calculated as granted divided by (granted + denied). It excludes terminations and withdrawals, and the source is EOIR FOIA data.