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Alice Song Hartye

Immigration Judge, Baltimore Immigration Court. Appointed October 2018 by Jeff Sessions.

Asylum record, FY 2021-2026

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Judge Hartye48.0%
Baltimore court55.7%
All judges nationally62.9%
Decisions on the merits
623
Asylum granted
288
Other relief granted
36
Denied
299
Against own court
-7.7 pts
Denial rate by fiscal year
FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
17%9%8%74%86%

Read from TRAC's chart to the nearest point. Years with fewer than 25 decisions are not shown.

Docket

Respondents represented by counsel: 89% (nationally, 81% are represented).

Most common nationalities: Honduras (20.2%), El Salvador (20.1%), Guatemala (11.6%), Cameroon (6.1%), Nigeria (5.6%).

Official biography

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Alice Song Hartye to begin hearing cases in October 2018. Judge Hartye ear ned a Bachelor of Arts in 2000 from Dickinson College and a Juris Doctor in 2005 from the Pennsylvania State University. From 2006 to 2018, she was an assistant chief counsel with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security in York, Pennsylvania and Phoenix. From 2014 to 2015 and 2012 to 2013, she served as a special assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. From 2005 to 2006, she was a judicial law clerk, entering on duty through the Attorney General's Honors Program, with immigration courts in Dallas and El Paso,Texas. Judge Hartye is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar.

As published by the Executive Office for Immigration Review at appointment, via TRAC.

In the record

No published reporting or appellate decisions naming this judge have been collected yet.

Other judges at Baltimore

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About these figures. Denial rates describe outcomes in the cases a judge happened to hear, which differ by detention, nationality and representation. They are not a measure of fairness or competence. Method and sources are on the judges index.