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Federal Prosecutors Along Southwest Border Overwhelmed by Soaring Drug, Immigration Cases

The indispensable Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse just released an excellent analysis of drug cases in the five federal judicial districts along the southwestern border, finding that federal drug prosecutions by US Attorneys' offices in those jurisdictions increased 30% overall in the last 16 months.The report includes data from the Southern and Western Districts of Texas, but the big news was out of Arizona, which saw the number of federal drug prosecutions skyrocket by 202%. The next highest increase, though, was in Texas' Southern District (Houston) which saw its number of drug prosecutions increase 53% over the same period. By contrast, despite the widely publicized drug violence in Juarez, drug prosecutions in Texas' Western District declined by 4%...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 19, 2010 (boomark / email).