Immigration judge James M. Left

EOIR records James M. Left as a serving immigration judge, code JML, with 7,517 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 21.5% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

7,517
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 15.6% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 21.5%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 366 granted of 1,702 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 366 asylum applications and denied 1,336 — 21.5% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,574 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge James M. Left, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1,378	271	125	423	124
FY2024	2,178	466	100	416	268
FY2023	2,022	296	77	114	667
FY2022	1,771	127	61	332	468
FY2021	168	9	3	51	47
FY2020	761	45	25	134	46
FY2019	1,190	6	47	137	52
FY2018	1,126	0	19	98	57
FY2017	981	0	15	131	186
FY2016	296	0	5	26	35

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 James M. Left completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	7,590
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	4,205
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	19
Annandale, VA (WAS)	13
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	11
Van Nuys, CA (VNS)	10
Santa Ana, CA (SNC)	6
New York, NY (NYC)	4
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	4
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	3
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	3
West Valley, UT (SLC)	3
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	2
Florence, AZ (FLO)	2
Houston, TX (HGP)	2
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	2
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	2
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	2
San Diego, CA (SND)	2
Aurora, CO (AUR)	1
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	1
Denver, CO (DEN)	1
Miami, FL (MIA)	1
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	1
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	1
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	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 · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Data retrieved September 1, 2026