Nationality and Court-by-Court Disparity in Asylum Decisions: Examining the Middle Fifty Percent of Judges Before and After the Attorney General's Directive

				FY 2004 - FY 2006			FY 2007 - FY 2009			Change in Disparity for Middle Judges
Nationality	Immigration Court			Denial Rates for Middle 50% of Judges			Denial Rates for Middle 50% of Judges			Before vs After AG's Directive
Nationality	Immigration Court	Decisions	Judges	Low (25th Percentile)	High (75th Percentile)	Middle Range	Low (25th Percentile)	High (75th Percentile)	Middle Range	Amount of Change	Source of Change
China	All	27,409	80	28.1%	71.3%	43.2	13.5%	53.7%	40.1
	Los Angeles	2,829	23	36.5%	67.2%	30.8	35.9%	61.5%	25.6	-5.2	change in judges
	Newark	1,331	6	24.3%	59.7%	35.4	40.5%	62.0%	21.5	-13.9	change in decisions
	New York	20,136	28	23.2%	56.8%	33.6	11.6%	33.7%	22.1	-11.5	change in decisions
Colombia	All	10,830	32	60.0%	87.6%	27.6	52.2%	76.5%	24.2
	Miami	8,149	23	68.9%	89.3%	20.4	59.8%	74.1%	14.3	-6.1	offsetting trends (A)
	Orlando	2,294	4	43.1%	69.2%	26.1	43.1%	76.5%	33.3	7.2	ofsetting trends (B)
Ethiopia	All	1,560	6	43.1%	49.2%	6.1	11.1%	44.6%	33.5
	Baltimore	958	4	35.4%	49.8%	14.4	40.2%	47.9%	7.6	-6.8	change in judge
Haiti	All	13,600	31	79.1%	91.4%	12.3	74.8%	91.2%	16.4
	Miami	11,104	24	80.4%	91.4%	11.1	77.5%	91.2%	13.7	2.6	change in judges increase disparity
India	All	2,420	17	31.5%	63.9%	32.4	33.2%	56.6%	23.4
	San Francisco	2,282	16	31.9%	67.5%	35.6	34.0%	61.6%	27.7	-7.9	change in decisions
Venezuela	All	2,403	17	77.4%	92.8%	15.4	44.8%	68.5%	23.7
	Miami	1,935	15	80.5%	94.8%	14.4	57.2%	68.5%	11.3	-3.1	change in decisions