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New Jersey Globe
July 16, 2026

Tea Party firebrand Anna Little has become one of the nation’s most immigrant-friendly judges
By David Wildstein,


According to data compiled by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), Little has granted asylum or other humanitarian protection in 610 of the 677 asylum cases she has decided on the merits at the New York Immigration Court, where she now serves, since fiscal year 2020 — a 90.1% grant rate. She has denied relief in just 67 cases, or 9.9%. Her full record is even broader. Across all three immigration courts where she has sat since being appointed in 2019 — San Francisco, Newark, and New York — Little has decided 1,222 asylum cases on the merits, granting asylum or other relief in 1,033 of them, an 84.5% grant rate. She has denied relief in just 189 cases, or 15.5% — roughly a quarter of the national denial rate over the same period


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