Immigration Judge at Hyattsville, MD
Judge David M. Jones serves at the Hyattsville, MD Immigration Court. With an asylum approval rate of 24.3%, this judge is below average compared to the national average. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
In 2025, news coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's high-profile deportation case focused on Immigration Judge David Jones's 2019 ruling and an apparent missing final removal order.
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/immigration-court-error-6-years-235715157.html
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David M. Jones is listed with the Hyattsville, MD Immigration Court. The headline asylum grant rate shown here is 24.3% based on granted and denied asylum decisions represented in the current dataset.
Among the largest nationality groups shown for this judge, the table highlights El Salvador (708 decided, 28.5% grant rate), Guatemala (611 decided, 13.4% grant rate), and Honduras (516 decided, 14.5% 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 Other procedural outcomes, including terminated, withdrawn, administratively closed, or removed cases, are tracked separately where available and are not treated as asylum grants.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 |
|---|---|---|
| El Salvador | 708 | 28.5% |
| Guatemala | 611 | 13.4% |
| Honduras | 516 | 14.5% |
| Venezuela | 240 | 11.2% |
| Cameroon | 177 | 83.6% |
| Peru | 156 | 19.9% |
| Nicaragua | 127 | 25.2% |
| Colombia | 107 | 15.9% |
| Year | Cases | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 638 | 14.7% |
| 2025 | 631 | 23.3% |
| 2024 | 690 | 24.3% |
| 2023 | 552 | 25.4% |
| 2022 | 192 | 77.6% |
| 2021 | 206 | 51.9% |
| 2020 | 351 | 3.4% |
Judge David M. Jones's asylum approval rate is 24.3% according to EOIR FOIA data.
The dataset lists 3,430 total asylum cases for Judge David M. Jones.
The approval rate is calculated as granted divided by (granted + denied). It excludes terminations and withdrawals, and the source is EOIR FOIA data.