Immigration judge Jesus Clemente

EOIR records Jesus Clemente as a serving immigration judge, code JCL, with 2,686 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2023 and 18.4% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

2,686
Proceedings completed, FY2019–2023: 10.5% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 18.4%
Asylum grant rate, FY2019–2023: 71 granted of 385 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2019 to 2023, this judge granted 71 asylum applications and denied 314 — 18.4% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 324 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge Jesus Clemente, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2023	63	0	2	27	5
FY2022	350	65	18	66	51
FY2021	285	10	21	12	96
FY2020	763	33	11	97	109
FY2019	1,225	174	19	112	63
FY2018	696	99	10	110	98
FY2017	833	116	16	54	132
FY2016	814	60	2	43	85
FY2015	714	10	2	52	32
FY2014	762	10	3	42	20

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 Jesus Clemente completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
San Diego, CA (SND)	7,068
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	812
Honolulu, HI (HON)	327
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	148
Imperial, CA (IMP)	146
Hagatna, GU (AGA)	113
Saipan, MP (SAI)	86
New York, NY (NYV)	73
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	70
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	64
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	45
Memphis, TN (MEM)	45
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	38
Annandale, VA (WAS)	30
El Paso, TX (EPD)	26
New York, NY (NYC)	19
Jena, LA (JNA)	16
Chicago, IL (CHI)	14
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	9
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	8
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	5
Dallas, TX (DAL)	2
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	2
Conroe, TX (CIC)	1
Laredo, TX (LRO)	1
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	1
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	1
Guaynabo, PR (SAJ)	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