Immigration judge Esmeralda Cabrera

EOIR records Esmeralda Cabrera as a former immigration judge, code ECC, with 2,507 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2006 and 37.0% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.

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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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

2,507
Proceedings completed, FY2002–2006: 17.1% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 37.0%
Asylum grant rate, FY2002–2005: 78 granted of 211 decided

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2002 to 2005, this judge granted 78 asylum applications and denied 133 — 37.0% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 319 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Esmeralda Cabrera, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2006	1	0	0	0	1
FY2005	591	200	8	25	67
FY2004	741	76	14	44	112
FY2003	627	69	31	42	72
FY2002	547	83	25	22	67
FY2001	242	0	78	43	73
FY2000	262	3	73	24	86
FY1999	333	1	33	32	66
FY1998	731	12	37	24	71
FY1997	788	82	26	32	118

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 Esmeralda Cabrera completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Newark, NJ (NEW)	2,493
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	2,305
New York, NY (NYC)	1,193
Detroit, MI (DET)	15
New York, NY (NYV)	4
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	3
Boston, MA (BOS)	1
Napanoch, NY (ULS)	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