Immigration judge David Ayala

EOIR records David Ayala as a serving immigration judge, code DA, with 2 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025.

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What these figures are, and what they are not

None of this measures how this judge decides. Represented and unrepresented applicants have very different outcomes and a judge’s mix of the two is not the judge’s doing; so is the share of their docket that is detained, and detention courts grant asylum at a fraction of the rate other courts do. EOIR publishes representation in a table this site has not loaded, and nothing here adjusts for either.

A grant rate is over decisions, not over applications. Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate. Across EOIR’s whole file there are more of those than there are grants and denials together.

Proceedings, not people, and a case can carry several. The figures below count proceedings and asylum applications, which are both larger than the number of people involved. Pending is a snapshot as of 2026-09-01 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

2
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 0.0% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: Not ranked
Asylum grant rate: only 0 decided, under the 100 a rate needs here

This judge decided 0 asylum applications in the five fiscal years to 2025 — 0 granted and 0 denied. That is below the 100 this site needs before it will publish a rate, because at a hundred decisions the interval around one is already about nine points wide. A further 0 ended neither way.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge David Ayala, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1	0	0	0	0
FY2021	1	0	0	0	0
FY2020	1	0	0	0	0
FY2019	12	0	0	0	0
FY2018	232	32	3	14	12
FY2017	3,077	432	4	49	175
FY2016	4,591	798	13	12	287
FY2015	4,746	650	17	37	287
FY2014	4,999	313	19	53	233
FY2013	1,879	216	33	27	93

Complete fiscal years only. A proceeding is counted in the year it completed, which is not the year it was recorded, so this table is not a record of what arrived.

Where the proceedings were

Immigration courts where David Ayala completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	77,024
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	14,226
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	1,154
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	527
Laredo, TX (LRO)	380
Portland, OR (POO)	234
Memphis, TN (MEM)	224
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	188
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	159
San Diego, CA (SND)	156
Dallas, TX (DAL)	92
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	59
Detroit, MI (DET)	27
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	27
Conroe, TX (CIC)	26
Orlando, FL (ORL)	25
New York, NY (NYC)	24
Las Vegas, NV (LVG)	16
Newark, NJ (NEW)	11
El Paso, TX (EPD)	10
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	8
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	7
Hagatna, GU (AGA)	4
El Paso, TX (ELP)	3
Jena, LA (JNA)	3
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	1
Honolulu, HI (HON)	1
Miami, FL (MIA)	1
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	1

The courts where EOIR records this judge completing proceedings, which is not the same as the courts they are assigned to: a judge is assigned to a median of three at once and as many as 72, and an assignment is not a posting.

Sources

EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year — U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review · Public domain. Information on Department of Justice websites is in the public domain unless otherwise indicated. · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Data retrieved September 1, 2026