EOIR / Immigration Judge
Immigration Judge Benton, Jimmie Lee - Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court - Asylum Decision Statistics
EOIR's FOIA data release does not report a trailing 12-month asylum grant rate for Immigration Judge Benton, Jimmie Lee at the Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court. Across the 178 decisions on record from October 1999 to February 2006, the asylum grant rate was 31.5%.
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Latest 12-month grant rate
Asylum decisions, trailing 12 months
Lifetime total cases
All recorded asylum decisions
FY2025 court average
Complete fiscal year: Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
Court average before the 2025 change
FY2024 baseline: Oct 2023 – Sep 2024
FY2024 was the last full fiscal year before the January 2025 asylum-policy changes, so it is kept fixed as a before-and-after baseline rather than updated. More cases now close administratively, which shifts the merit-decision mix and is why the later figures are much lower.
Last data refresh
From Deportation Data Project FOIA release
Monthly grant-rate trend
| Month | Grant rate |
|---|---|
| 2001-06 | 25.0% |
| 2001-12 | 0.0% |
| 2002-01 | 0.0% |
| 2002-02 | 100.0% |
| 2002-03 | 100.0% |
| 2002-04 | 0.0% |
| 2002-05 | 35.7% |
| 2002-06 | 16.7% |
| 2002-07 | 0.0% |
| 2002-08 | 100.0% |
| 2002-10 | 100.0% |
| 2003-06 | 100.0% |
| 2004-01 | 25.0% |
| 2004-02 | 0.0% |
| 2004-03 | 9.1% |
| 2004-04 | 66.7% |
| 2004-05 | 75.0% |
| 2004-06 | 0.0% |
| 2004-07 | 80.0% |
| 2004-08 | 100.0% |
| 2004-09 | 60.0% |
| 2004-10 | 16.7% |
| 2004-11 | 25.0% |
| 2004-12 | 8.3% |
| 2005-01 | 20.0% |
| 2005-02 | 60.0% |
| 2005-03 | 20.0% |
| 2005-04 | 30.0% |
| 2005-05 | 0.0% |
| 2005-06 | 0.0% |
| 2005-07 | 11.1% |
| 2005-08 | 100.0% |
| 2005-09 | 100.0% |
| 2005-11 | 100.0% |
| 2005-12 | 100.0% |
| 2006-01 | 0.0% |
| 2006-02 | 100.0% |
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