Houston Immigration Court

Active

500 Jefferson St., Suite 300, Houston, TX

203,914

Total Cases

312,347

Completed

5.2%

Grant Rate

15,168

Removal Orders

Yearly Case Trend

#	Judge	Decisions	Grants	Grant Rate	Removals
1	Yates, Clarease Rankin	31,649	3,208	10.1%	3,384
2	Brisack, Chris A.	21,022	1,292	6.1%	65
3	Brown, Robert	18,152	1,377	7.6%	4,431
4	Bhagat, Nimmo	17,749	676	3.8%	39
5	Endelman, Gary E.	17,715	610	3.4%	28
6	Zimmer, William K.	16,159	2,021	12.5%	550
7	Picos, Georgina M.	13,270	359	2.7%	34
8	Law, Philip S.	12,767	1,484	11.6%	64
9	Gemoets, Marcos	11,456	265	2.3%	43
10	Greenstein, Saul E.	10,523	189	1.8%	46
11	Khan, Anwer A.	10,285	175	1.7%	52
12	Brown, Sam, Iv	10,113	116	1.1%	28
13	Nguyen, Bao Q.	9,412	251	2.7%	43
14	Luis, Lisa	9,341	217	2.3%	19
15	Yam, Mimi	8,495	530	6.2%	33
16	Wang, Lynn	7,588	52	0.7%	37
17	Walton, Richard D.	7,436	336	4.5%	26
18	Ramos, Maritza S.	6,918	120	1.7%	32
19	Suarez, Michael K.	5,703	296	5.2%	2,782
20	Harris, Monique	5,314	72	1.4%	5

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Houston has one of the lower grant rates in the system at 5.2%. This court issued 15,168 removal orders out of 312,347 completed proceedings.

How court location determines outcomes.

Within each court, judges vary dramatically.

How the 1.9M case backlog grew.