5 Federal Courts on Mexican Border Lead Nation in Criminal Convictions
Terry Jeffrey
Posted: Apr 03, 2019 12:01 AM
The five federal court districts that sit along the U.S.-Mexico border were the top five districts in the country for the number of defendants they convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in fiscal 2018, according to data published by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ranked No. 1. It convicted 8,179 criminal defendants and sentenced 7,126 of them to imprisonment in the last fiscal year.
It was followed by the Southern District of Texas (6,140/5,939), the Southern District of California (5,723/5,470), the District of Arizona (4,731/4,378) and the District of New Mexico (3,979/3,923).
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2019/04/03/5-federal-courts-on-mexican-border-lead-nation-in-criminal-convictions-n2544168
