5 federal districts on the U.S.- Mexico border accounted for 27% of criminal convictions in the 30 federal districts in 2018.
Via CNS News:
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).
The combined jurisdictions of these five federal district courts cover the U.S.-Mexico border from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. (There are a total of 94 federal court districts.) […]
In the nation-leading Western District of Texas, the court disposed of the cases of 8,470 defendants. Of these, only 291 — or 3.4 percent — were not convicted. These included 273 whose cases were dismissed, 14 who were acquitted in a jury trial and 4 who were acquitted in a bench trial.
The 8,179 defendants who were convicted and sentenced in the Western District of Texas included 10 who were only fined, 1,043 who were released under supervision and 7,126 who were sentenced to imprisonment.