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Inside Immigration

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Immigration judges

Colin Patrick Johnson

Immigration Judge, Kansas City Immigration Court. Appointed March 2020 by William P. Barr.

Asylum record, FY 2021-2026

TRAC source →
Judge Johnson70.9%
Kansas City court75.9%
All judges nationally62.9%
Decisions on the merits
498
Asylum granted
62
Other relief granted
83
Denied
353
Against own court
-5.0 pts
Denial rate by fiscal year
FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
86%67%60%60%93%

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

Docket

Respondents represented by counsel: 71% (nationally, 81% are represented).

Most common nationalities: Guatemala (29.1%), Honduras (17.1%), El Salvador (8.6%), Mexico (8.2%), Venezuela (6.2%).

Official biography

Attorney General William P. Barr appointed Colin P. Johnson as an immigration judge in March 2020. Judge Johnson ear ned a Bachelor of Arts in 1998 from Hamline University and a Juris Doctor in 2001 from Hamline University School of Law. From 2007 to 2020, he served as an assistant chief counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, Office of the Principal Legal Advisor,Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, in Fort Snelling,Minnesota. From 2010 to 2012, he served as a special assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S.Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota, in St. Paul. From 2001 to 2007, he served as ajudge advocate for the 1st Infantry Division, at Fort Riley, Kansas. There he served as both acriminal prosecutor and defense counsel and completed a one-year deployment to Iraq from 2003to 2004. Judge Johnson is a member of the Minnesota State 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 Kansas City

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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.