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Inside Immigration

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Immigration judges

Danielle H. Garten

Immigration Judge, Houston - Greenspoint Park. Appointed December 2022.

StrictDenies far more often than the national average+31.9 points

Asylum record, FY 2021-2026

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Judge Garten94.8%
Houston - Greenspoint court89.4%
All judges nationally62.9%
Decisions on the merits
291
Asylum granted
0
Other relief granted
15
Denied
276
Against own court
+5.4 pts
Denial rate by fiscal year
FY24FY25FY26
83%98%93%

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

Docket

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

Most common nationalities: Honduras (21.3%), Venezuela (21%), Mexico (12.7%), Cuba (10%), Colombia (7.9%).

Official biography

Danielle H. Garten was appointed as an Immigration Judge to begin hearing cases in December 2022. Judge Garten ear ned a Bachelor of Arts in 2002 from Quinnipiac University and a Juris Doctor in 2005 from Touro College-Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center. From 2016 to 2022, she served as an assistant chief counsel, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, in El Paso, Texas. During that time, she served as a special assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas-El Paso Division. From 2011 to 2016, she was an associate attorney at Marks, O'Neill, O'Brien, Doherty & Kelly, P.C. in New York. From 2009 to 2011, she served as an information, review, and release analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia. From 2008 to 2009, she was an associate attorney at Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry, LLP in New York. From 2006 to 2008, she was an associate attorney at Subin Associates LLP in New York. Judge Garten is a member of the State of Connecticut Bar and New York 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 Houston - Greenspoint

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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.